wonderingwanderer

When Giorgia Mussolini is more humane and progressive than the United States government…

Except, in capitalism, there is no “actually relax the next day.”

There’s always more work to do. You wake up the next day and do it all again. You make it to the end of the week, and on Saturday you catch up on all the shit around the house you didn’t get to. Sunday you have more shit to do. Monday comes and you go back to work.

A side effect of the alienation of labor is that there’s no incentive to “get it all done and then relax the next day.” No, you get it all done and then it’s onto the next job. If you go above and beyond, you set a new precedent and then your boss expects that from you every day from now on, and if you revert to a “normal” pace then you get reprimanded.

Some people are underprivileged and grow up in inner city neighborhoods where they have no access to reliable transportation to wilderness areas or even urban greenspace. It’s not always a “touch grass” situation.

Me, I grew up eating dirt and berries that I was pretty sure weren’t poisonous. I didn’t believe in washing my hands too much because I thought it would weaken my immune system.

The thing is, being familiar with nature didn’t help me navigate social situations. Someone who grew up in a city and has never seen a real forest is probably wayyy better adjusted and socially-integrated than I’ll ever be…

I could be at the terminal three hours early, and I’ll still feel nervous and anxious until I’m on the plane…

I’ve watched streamers who played BOTW first then play earlier games, and reacted with surprise at how much lore was in them.

Meanwhile, the lore:

I watched Gulliver’s Travels cause I thought it would be interesting. I didn’t realize ahead of time that it was supposed to be a kid’s movie. (At least, I hope it was supposed to be a kid’s movie, cause it would’ve been really shitty by any other standard).

And I have to say, seeing Jack Black acting in a kid’s movie just felt wrong. I mean, I’ve seen that man do dick-ups. I’ve seen him have a placebo acid trip in the desert after peeing on a pregnancy test. Oil and water, man. Some things just don’t mix.

Of course, the spontaneous jam sessions were pretty cringe too. Like, “You were cool twenty years ago, dude. It’s okay to retire and be lame now, but the lamest thing you can do is to keep trying to be cool…”

You mean like the kid fron We Are the Millers who had freshly tweezed eyebrows in every scene of this supposedly post-apocalyptic survivalist future?

Ugh, I just had a visceral reaction when you said “Maze Runner.”

I watched all three films back-to-back once, not out of interest or curiosity or commitment to the plot, no. It was out of masochism.

I knew that they were terrible movies all along, and yet I couldn’t stop watching because I knew I deserved the misery and self-loathing that it was causing me…

And it wasn’t even in a campy way that you could just laugh at and have a good time. They were just bad.

Well, guess what happens when you let amazon of all fucking companies produce a tv adaptation of an influential/cornerstone fantasy book series…

What sucks is they probably own the license now, so no one else can do a better job…

It’s actually that Jesus will come at an appointed time that no one can know or decide, and when he does he’ll smite the followers of the evil lunatic to hell. So no, trumpees don’t even know their own religion…

That’s actually based af. The only thing it’s missing is changing the patient to be Epstein

Inconceivable!

Does this mean the tankies are actually going to vote in the midterms?

Or are they just going to have a harder time coming up with excuses why Democrats are so bad that it’s better just to let Republicans hold onto power?

to show how the study exposed the inherit rational selfishness of the average person.

If that’s supposed to be a reference to Kant, your professor was severely misinterpreting it. If not, it’s probably referencing some later theorist who was in turn referencing Kant (and severely misinterpreting it).

The rational egoist thought experiment imagines a society composed entirely of perfectly rational, completely egoistic people. Kant argues that they would all agree to abide by certain rules, in exchange for the guarantee that everyone else abides by those rules as well.

Being perfectly rational, they know that this is best for themselves; and being completely egoistic, they agree to it not out of altruism, empathy, or abstract ideals, but because concretely, it benefits them to do so.

The thought experiment is not:

1. Intended to describe reality
2. Intended to describe how things should be
3. Intended to encourage people to be selfish

What it is intended to do, is provide a rational basis for an argument that everyone should treat others the way that they themselves want to be treated.

Kant builds upon this thought experiment to describe the categorical imperative: “act only according to maxims which you believe should be universal.” In other words, don’t do things that you’d be upset if someone else did!

It is effectively a secular basis for the same thing as the “Golden Rule”: not “because Jesus said so,” but because “life is objectively better when we treat each other this way.”

Of course, people who don’t care about philosophy typically cut me off before I’ve got more than a sentence and a half out. So then they assume whatever the rest of it is supposed to be, based on their own ignorance, bias, and predisposition. So they hear me talking about “rational egoists” and think I’m arguing in favor of narcissism, or they hear “categorical imperative” and it either sounds like gibberish to them or they think I’m trying to be domineering. Neither of which are the case, but they never let me get enough words out to explain it to them, and even if I do, they only half listen and still make assumptions anyway.

It’s why talking about philosophy in person never goes well. Even in a philosophy class (most people there are just there for the elective anyway; they think it’s all bullshit and act all smug towards anyone who takes it seriously).

At least online, I can get all my thoughts out. Maybe people still don’t read it all, but they can, and that’s better than when I get interrupted in the middle of my second sentence in person and then no one knows what I was going to say, and anyone then gets to impose their own assumptions about what my point ultimately was going to be.

Of course, even online people will ignore critical points and take things out of context, and sea lion and strawman their way to scoring points. But at least on the fediverse most people recognize that and the downvotes usually reflect. Usually.

Anyway, I digress. I guess it was my turn to rant.

What a cutie pie!

Here’s everybody’s reminder that every WWII vet (at least from the Allied forces) was antifa.

Hey bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao

Unfortunately, it would go right over their heads and they would just call you a creep, reinforcing their belief that you should be under constant surveillance…

And they’d probably go and put a ring camera in their bedroom… you know, for… privacy…