padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
yeah of course, that's exactly what corporate virtue signalling is about. a modern form of recuperation.
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This is all great and theoretical but let's not pretend that the BBC, in real terms, is doing this for any reason other than to appease a certain type of audience member. The kind of person who thinks "black people" is a debate subject and poppies should be mandatory but buys into the myth of virtue-signalling.
constant escape
winter withered, warm
Yeah that was the point I was trying to make earlier, that opting for neutrality regarding a lopsided status quo indicates complicity with said lopsidedness.
vimothy
yurp
neutrality is the ruling contradiction of contemporary liberalism - you should be free to answer the "big questions" for yourself, but this idea is highly idiosyncratic in historical terms and anything but neutral and in practice comes loaded with substantive assumptions about what the correct answers are
constant escape
winter withered, warm
Bad faith neutrality.
linebaugh
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can you expand here?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
This is vimothy. He could, but he won't.
vimothy
yurp
neutrality WRT the "big questions" is not something most ppl, historically speaking, would agree is desirable. and so in that sense neutrality is not really neutral.
linebaugh
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what are the big questions?
john eden
male pale and stale
“Why Does It Hurt When My Heart Misses The Beat?”
woops
is not like other people
i'd try to answer this question but i am biased. i think some second-order pragmatism is needed.
woops
is not like other people
if i'm understanding this right then you can take christianity as an example for most of the people here. if you're anything like me then you don't spend all day and night worrying over whether you'll make it to heaven. you'll only do that at your least guarded moments, if ever. and so you think that you can look at the question of whether you'll get to heaven like richard dawkins and think what a silly idea, there is no heaven, it's just a preposterous fairy tale. however it may not be so simple to do away with two thousand years of culture, whatever atari teenage riot say.
woops
is not like other people
i'm glad you 🤣 but i think wittgenstein reckoned the history of philosophy mostly consisted of asking the wrong questions and he was much cleverer than me. he was also into jokes and thought you could write a book of philosophy in joke form. based on the few lines of his i've actually read though i don't think he tried it himself
linebaugh
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I like this distanced vim exegesis. The disdainful father issues his truncated decree making scribes of all the children
What could this mean?
What could this mean?
john eden
male pale and stale
This ones easy, typo on in it should be im