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chic nihilist ironic contrarianismSent on:2:49 pmFrom:(✿ ◕‿◕) ᓄ✂╰U╯ Ｃｒａｉｇ  Ｓａｖａｇｅ I'll make fun of everything and life is joke to me unless your racist or make fun of the way I look or something

yeah a lot of ideological labels are super reductiveSent on:2:08 pmFrom:(✿ ◕‿◕) ᓄ✂╰U╯ Ｃｒａｉｇ  Ｓａｖａｇｅ especially when you start digging through WW2 revisionism and read stuff like HeideggerFrom:(✿ ◕‿◕) ᓄ✂╰U╯ Ｃｒａｉｇ  Ｓａｖａｇｅ you realize a lot of this stuff meant different things to different ppl and fulfilled certain needs etc.

right the argument comes that the borderless revolution was a largely Trotskyite ideal and because Stalin split from it he could be considered fascist

there is a trillion flavours of communism

named after whatever despot introduced it

-stuff about party loyalty determining status, versus America-
I mean you see it in America to some degree but it's very well hidden and implicit; every society has its taboos of course and I understand it could be much worse where it the DPRK or something

america and europe are very culturally different even if they dont seem to beFrom:Stedilnik america is based more on individualismFrom:Stedilnik whilst europe and the rest of the world is more based on collectivismFrom:Stedilnik where the needs and wants of an individual don't matter as much

right America on some level was the dumping ground for Europe's most disagreeable populations so there's radical ethnic differences on top of the romanticism of the founders which has permeated the culture

american patriotism was still a strong enough binderSent on:2:29 pmFrom:Stedilnik to workFrom:Stedilnik till the age of information

now there's a lot of young people who resent the old ideasSent on:2:30 pmThis message was editedFrom:Stedilnik nobody wants to join the military anymore to defend democracyFrom:Stedilnik or stuff like thatFrom:Stedilnik they are forced into it because it's the only way they can pay for college and medicare

yeah there's stuff that I liked about Romanticism but as time goes on we start embodying the worst parts of the ideal instead of the best

it's not even by designFrom:Stedilnik it's justFrom:Stedilnik a neverending sequence of short term shit being doneFrom:Stedilnik whose consequences only become apparent in 10 to 20 yearsFrom:Stedilnik nobody wants to turn their country into a wasteland

legit the only philosophy text I've read semi thoroughly is Industrial Society and its ConsquencesFrom:(✿ ◕‿◕) ᓄ✂╰U╯ Ｃｒａｉｇ  Ｓａｖａｇｅ aka The Unabomber Manifesto

i read a žižek article onceSent on:2:41 pmFrom:Stedilnik i'm not sure what he was on about but the kids love it

i'm sure hed be for whatever the opposite is of what the neoliberal elites want