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Great stuff as usual, the babies topic in particular had a lot of interesting material. Credit to @satirizedoor; I actually think this is helping me form a better model of the world than the commonly understood thrive/survive and conflict/mistake frameworks.
That observation on mimetics plus my dim recollections of Teach's/TLP's writings is giving shape to a theory I've been bashing around in my head for a while: that optics and the almighty I is everything. Not quite fully formed thought but overall gist: we've sacrificed so much on the altar of individualism everything in the world is then judged on whether or not it benefits the individual's model of who they are. Whether it's conflict or mistake doesn't matter, what matters is masturbation vs narcissistic self-injury.
I think I’m largely going in the same direction. Though I think part of the rot comes from the idealized democratic values being promoted and thus ideas like expertise, merit, and self-sacrifice are being lost as people choose to live out the ID experience because that’s certainly easier to do than work hard and achieve things.
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