Optimisation
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shiels
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"Deleuze and his congenial partner Félix Guattari speak of the old and the new idiot. The old idiot wanted evidence. He wanted to get to that evidence through himself and he would doubt all truths, even the simplest ones. The new idiot hates evidence. They are of no interest to him and there is no question of resigning himself to this evidence. The new idiot wants the absurd and that is how a completely different picture of thinking emerges.
The tension between old and new brings the mindsets to collapse and the sustained tremor shakes the established knowledge. If the old idiot wanted to find out for himself what was understandable or not, what was reasonable or not, what is worth saving or not, what may or may not get lost, then he finally has a challenger. The new idiot wants the lost, the incomprehensible, the absurd to be returned. If man succeeds in overcoming the stage of the old idiot and survives the transformation to the new idiot, then something really changes, because one thing is certain: there is another person in front of us.
The new idiot exceeds, but his function in society is not recognized. We need more new idiots."
The tension between old and new brings the mindsets to collapse and the sustained tremor shakes the established knowledge. If the old idiot wanted to find out for himself what was understandable or not, what was reasonable or not, what is worth saving or not, what may or may not get lost, then he finally has a challenger. The new idiot wants the lost, the incomprehensible, the absurd to be returned. If man succeeds in overcoming the stage of the old idiot and survives the transformation to the new idiot, then something really changes, because one thing is certain: there is another person in front of us.
The new idiot exceeds, but his function in society is not recognized. We need more new idiots."
wektor
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after embracing the nerd (2010s), time to embrace the idiot, I suppose.
just wait until the self-loathing zoomers hear about this.
whil the tiktok dances you've been recording recently might make you seem very silly, your serious life decisions have been in fact completely reasonable recently. poser.
just wait until the self-loathing zoomers hear about this.
whil the tiktok dances you've been recording recently might make you seem very silly, your serious life decisions have been in fact completely reasonable recently. poser.
shiels
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im narcissistic but i kind of feel hostile to any idea anyone has of me, and thats very pronounced with hyper conscious curation on social media
sus
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Yeah the desire not to be pigeonholed is an interesting case of what Erving Goffman calls "impression management" (in the spirit of the thread, we can call it "opticsmization"). Any fixed identity comes with its baggages so you stay nimble, keep it ambiguous.
sus
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I'll be your idiot shiels 😍
luka
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very Craner.
shiels
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maybe self destruct was a bit strong its more self reconstruct and deviate etc. OTOH this is obviously just the norm isnt it, someone gives you a compliment and you immediately undermine, someone insults and you defend
sus
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Right. Absolutely bizarre behavior. That almost everybody takes part in.