techno hippie

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Cake day: October 29th, 2023
  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Just an example of not using reasoned explanations and instead conforming to “requires continual compliance for next to no explanation” that sprang to mind.

    Since I was not saying you were saying what you’re saying I was saying, that’s your own (both) strawman fallacy fallacy, and its own strawman fallacy. As I said, it’s just what also sprang to mind in that same vein of thought. At a stretch, maybe you could try claim it a slippery slope fallacy on my part, but again, I was not saying that’s the inevitable result from your line of thought(/dogma). It’s just a possibility [due consideration] within that philosophy.

    Also, while we’re on the case of detecting fallacies, you’ve moved the goalposts from “That**’s** simply raising children.” to “explanation and exploring ideas sometimes simply doesn’t work”.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s a problem for a hierarchical society that requires continual compliance for next to no explanation

    That’s simply raising children.

    I’m deeply concerned for the wellbeing of your children.

    I’m deeply concerned for the wellbeing of a society that’s even peppered (let alone prolific) with this naive-realist rationalised irrationality.

    “That’s simply” authoritarian totalitarianism, normalised.

    And of course, the totalitarianised psyche does not see this. Like the fish does not see water. Does not even know its a thing. Knows no other way. “That’s simply” how it is to them.

    A couple other things spring to mind:

    “If you’re old enough to ask the question, you’re old enough to handle the answer.” (And even before (and if not, plant the seed and they may get it later).

    and

    Should I Strike My Child Flowchart: Are they old enough to understand reason? Yes? Use reason. No? Then they're not old enough to understand reason you're striking them. Stop hitting your child, asshole.

    Try explanation before dismissing it out of hand. Better pedagogy. Explanation’s not even a high bar. There are better yet. Invite exploring ideas.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Imagine not falling into the Orwellian hole, not perverting language with conflations and inversions.

    Imagine “communism” was still used in the original sense as coined by anarchist political philosophers, at least 5 years before Marx ignored Bakunin and usurped it, stripped the freedom aspect, and handed it over to the tankies (and all the capitalists and imperialists gladly played along).

    Imagine communism like Kropotkin and Bakunin would have meant it.

    Fully decentralised. Maximally mutually freedom affirming.

    Imagine people were so thoroughly availed education instead of indoctrination, and thus were immunized against such perversions of language and thought. Not confusing totalitarianism for [anarcho-]communism, nor fascism for democracy, just because some deceivers intentionally mislabeled them to usurp all power for themselves.

    Imagine “democracy” really meant organised by the people, not re-presented by the oligarchs.

    Imagine not falling into the Orwellian hole.

    Imagine undoing generations of this deeply entrenched Orwellian corruption of language and thought.

    *Dreamer*