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Perhaps we are more alike than we realize
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No, it's the opposite. We are more different than we realize yet we always try to pretend that we have something in common by identifying ourselves as members of an ethnicity, a nation, a country, a race, a sexual minority, a specie, etc.
@cyberspook
No, we are very much alike. All the same shit 🤣
Perhaps, we only differentiate ourselves to make ourselves feel better (than the rest) 🤷
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@m0xee
No, it’s not about differentiation and elitism, this differentiation is always according to some abstraction that, again, unifies individuals in their “uniqueness.” What people usually take as “uniqueness” is stereotypes about the capitalist class, people view their position as prestige and thus try to mimick their mannerisms. A consequence of a slave mentality. I propose that we all are unique. No exceptions. It’s just that we are indoctrinated by specific abstractions that force us to protect the interests of the collective and devalue our subjective experience as something irrelevant. I am unique. Just like you. And because I am unique I do not care about protecting your interests. And you aren’t obligated to either, if you turn against me that’ll be perfectly understandable. Because you too are unique. And because every person is different than the next, noone owns shit to anyone, we’re just forced to believe that we do. The herd behavior is created from that sense of duty to society, that we are prohibited in challenging the existing order and think that we must obey ideas like authority or religion or nation or humanity.
@splitshockvirus
No, it’s not about differentiation and elitism, this differentiation is always according to some abstraction that, again, unifies individuals in their “uniqueness.” What people usually take as “uniqueness” is stereotypes about the capitalist class, people view their position as prestige and thus try to mimick their mannerisms. A consequence of a slave mentality. I propose that we all are unique. No exceptions. It’s just that we are indoctrinated by specific abstractions that force us to protect the interests of the collective and devalue our subjective experience as something irrelevant. I am unique. Just like you. And because I am unique I do not care about protecting your interests. And you aren’t obligated to either, if you turn against me that’ll be perfectly understandable. Because you too are unique. And because every person is different than the next, noone owns shit to anyone, we’re just forced to believe that we do. The herd behavior is created from that sense of duty to society, that we are prohibited in challenging the existing order and think that we must obey ideas like authority or religion or nation or humanity.
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@m0xee
Vulgar "individualism" is in fact dividualism. We do not think of ourselves as creative nothings with the ego being forever fluid as our life circumstances change and disappear but as a set of properties which are conveniently manipulated by the capitalist market. You do not say that you are unique because you are yourself. But you say that you're unique because you listen to "unique" music or dress in a "unique" way. Your uniqueness is always about some material things rather than the sheer fact of you being a singularity that lives its own life and has an irreducible subjective experience. Animals. Animals are unique too. Every animal is unique.
@splitshockvirus
Vulgar "individualism" is in fact dividualism. We do not think of ourselves as creative nothings with the ego being forever fluid as our life circumstances change and disappear but as a set of properties which are conveniently manipulated by the capitalist market. You do not say that you are unique because you are yourself. But you say that you're unique because you listen to "unique" music or dress in a "unique" way. Your uniqueness is always about some material things rather than the sheer fact of you being a singularity that lives its own life and has an irreducible subjective experience. Animals. Animals are unique too. Every animal is unique.
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@m0xee
We should recognize ourselves not as humans. Not as Russians, as males, as workers, as ghaymers, as anime fans, as nerds, as loners, as heroes, as villains. But as human beings. As simply beings. And no being is the same as another being. A being cannot lose its humanity because humanity is a property assigned to the being but not what defines the being. We are all beings. Different beings. Creatures. Bodies without organs. In being creatures we are equal. But you are not me and I am not you.
@splitshockvirus
We should recognize ourselves not as humans. Not as Russians, as males, as workers, as ghaymers, as anime fans, as nerds, as loners, as heroes, as villains. But as human beings. As simply beings. And no being is the same as another being. A being cannot lose its humanity because humanity is a property assigned to the being but not what defines the being. We are all beings. Different beings. Creatures. Bodies without organs. In being creatures we are equal. But you are not me and I am not you.
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@cyberspook
This is also true, but too idealistic. It works only when everyone is conscious as extreme individualist. If someone else is using some tool and you are not, you're at a disadvantage. If a group of people unites and they are ready to use violence, we also have to unite to fight back.
Nation states exist precisely because they work. In some circumstances they are the lesser evil.
But healthy skepticism, if that goal really aligns to your interests, is always good.
@splitshockvirus
@m0xee
I obviously do not assume that we can convince the entire world that it is indeed in their self-interest to be conscious egoists. I may convince a couple of people to join me but that's it. That's why I seek alliances between different libertarian/socialist movements. I cannot expect everyone to share my way of thinking, it's a pointless endeavor. But at least I am more flexible at choosing my allies.
@splitshockvirus
I obviously do not assume that we can convince the entire world that it is indeed in their self-interest to be conscious egoists. I may convince a couple of people to join me but that's it. That's why I seek alliances between different libertarian/socialist movements. I cannot expect everyone to share my way of thinking, it's a pointless endeavor. But at least I am more flexible at choosing my allies.
@splitshockvirus
@m0xee
This is also true, but too idealistic. It works only when everyone is conscious as extreme individualist.
This wasn’t a prescriptive statement but a propositionary one. I only speak in propositionary statements, not prescriptive ones, because I’m a moral nihilist and a rational egoist, not a moralistic one like, say, Ayn Rand. I simply suggest a mode of behavior that is self-liberatory in nature, assuming that it might be in your self-interest.
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