Hidden racism, bougyman, factional analysis, multiple identities

jerrycurl
bougyman went full-on papa john the other night
infspire
How so?
infspire
bougyman has a lot of delusional thoughts.
infspire
A important component of his mind hates evidence.
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infspire
He's a pretty standard right-libertarian in the United States, I find.
jerrycurl
bougyman's expressed Thought was about the same as what got papa john canceled
jerrycurl
i didn't commit it to memory
12:29 infspire
Solid IQ (compared to normies but not compared to intellectuals/philosophers), little empathy, self-capable, reasoning mostly from first principles.
jerrycurl
on the preschool playground i attended there was sort of an ongoing race war
jerrycurl
kids running around shouting racial epithets for hours
infspire
So, when he encounters intellectuals/philosophers with empathy that can see the pretty reasonable first principles are insufficient to describe our world, he gets stuck.
infspire
He'll just repeat the first principle.
infspire
"Sure, but look at this evidence, though. That first principle isn't expressive enough to handle this evidence."
infspire
Which leads to him repeating the first principle.
infspire
If you do this a few times, he starts to sense that his first principles are insufficient, and so his mind invokes other resources to assist him.
infspire
He will start crafting conspiracy theories about the evidence -- it's not really true.
infspire
He'll then cite something known to be fallacious reasoning for about 2300 years.
jerrycurl
when the dementia hits i hope my mind doesn't start barfing up chat or reddit thoughts
infspire
You won't know.
infspire
jerrycurl: Madison, as a pre-Marxist, constructed a grand narrative of human nature as factional/conflict based.
infspire
These ideas of Madison and Marx -- Marx is the founder of the dominant paradigm of sociology on Earth -- seem to be pretty solid at explaining a good chunk of human nature.
12:33 jerrycurl
yeah i think of kids as probably reenacting our evolution - phylogeny recapitulating ontogeny
jerrycurl
from fish to adult ape
infspire
Individuals, whether they want to or not, often group themselves into various factions, some overlapping, some in conflict, some nested.
jerrycurl
then we go in reverse, but with no mother or father to catch our fall
jerrycurl
just fox news
infspire
For a lot of people, even if they don't really ever talk about putative race, race is a deep factional identity they use to segment themselves in global human civilization.
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jerrycurl
?
jerrycurl
local > general
infspire
As the conditions in the United States have worsened lately due to climate change, political strife, and economic depression, larger, more abstract factional identities are wearing thin.
jerrycurl
brain-wise
infspire
So, we're seeing people retreat into narrow identity categories they feel more secure in.
infspire
As far as I know, bougyman is 'white'.
infspire
Like the typical American, he is starting to retreat into this identity category.
infspire
Expect him to say more and more race-based and racist things, ala Papa John.
jerrycurl
there was a study that drew criticism for imperfect methods that claimed that old people who received general anesthesia then had increased rates of dementia
infspire
He'll point to his lifetime and point out, probably correctly, that he isn't particularly racist or race-based in his thinking.
infspire
This will be true and largely irrelevant.
jerrycurl
i think it meant geriatric
jerrycurl
a finnish classmate once describe a professor as "having a lot of surgeries"
infspire
This phenomenon I am describing is specifically related to a special portion of the psychological distribution -- extremely high stress situations that last longer than six months and are caused by factors external to one's locus of control while affecting simultaneously large amounts of that individual's society.
jerrycurl
this is like a room full of people at the nursing home watching jeopardy
infspire
This part of the distribution of being will reveal parts of an individual's nature they may have not previously seen.
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infspire
The high quality responses in this time needs to be extremely evidence-driven while focused on key top-level principles while being extremely open to learning.
infspire
Right-libertarianism does not encourage these values in excess.
infspire
Right-libertarians, like in the Weimar Republic in the 1930s, will retreat to their first principles and their core factional identities.
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Their emotions will increasingly dominant their perceptions. The propaganda created from sinister, delusional factions -- Trumpism in this era -- will speak to their increasing sense of dread.
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They will recognize their factional identity present in the Dread Faction -- first fascism and now Trumpism -- and they will align.
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This is why it is important to have an extremely high IQ and not just one that is high compared to normies, coupled with substantial personal and historical mindfulness.
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infspire
This concludes my analysis of why bougyman might express racist Papa John sentiments in this era.