If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Dak]

https://quillette.com/2018/12/11/sad-radicals/

Poor Mort.

When I became an anarchist, I was a depressed and anxious teenager, in search of answers. Radicalism explained that these were not manageable issues with biological and lifestyle factors, they were the result of living in capitalist alienation. For, as Kelsey Cham C notes, “This whole world is based on fucking misery” and “In capitalist systems, we’re not meant to feel joy.” Radicalism not only finds that all oppressions intersect, but so does all suffering. The force that causes depression is the same that causes war, domestic abuse, and racism. By accepting this framework, I surrendered to an external locus of control. Personal agency in such a model is laughable. And then, when I became an even less happy and less strong person over the years as an anarchist, I had an explanation on hand.
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Activists anxiously pore over interactions, looking for ways in which the mundane conceals domination. To see every interaction as containing hidden violence is to become a permanent victim, because if all you are is a nail, everything looks like a hammer.

 

[Einherjar86]

Anarchy isn’t a great way of life, but it can be an immensely useful tool for interrogating the world in which we live.

I’m reading Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method right now, which basically pushes this idea to an untenable degree—but it’s still a compelling argument.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[Dak]

Anarchy isn’t a great way of life, but it can be an immensely useful tool for interrogating the world in which we live.

I’m reading Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method right now, which basically pushes this idea to an untenable degree—but it’s still a compelling argument.

Well as a reformed Rothbardian, I'm not entirely in disagreement. But my interrogation didn't look anything like what is described in that article; that article describes exactly what I observe from the SJW crowd, or however one wants to label them. Miseducated, unhappy people externalizing problems that are substantially of their own making.

 

[Dak]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...u-have-poor-endurance-genes-changes-your-body

I'm a bit skeptical about such rapid physiological changes, but not at the differences in performance. But it's a hit against outrage culture.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Radio Stations Are Lifting The Ban On "Baby It's Cold Outside" Because Canadians Refused To Stop Complaining About It

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Run Run Rudolph

All those horns, all those hooves, the mixing of genders, the supple skin of the sleek does, the implied sadomasochism when they lock their antlers and toss each other around—Rudolph is obviously being told he’s not kinky enough for the big leagues, if you know what I mean and I think you do.

Fucking Joe Bob

 

[Dak]

Gonna show my even-handedness:

 

[The Ozzman]

 

[Dak]

JP has previously been on a lot of podcasts and mostly just kind of going through a script related to 12 Rules or stuff mostly covered in his classroom based videos (which was also the case the 2 previous times he was on the Jocko Podcast (also "JP" lol)). This was a welcome break from that trend, and they really dig into human capacity for evil via the Gulag Archipelago.

 

[The Ozzman]

Yet Mort was insistent a few months ago that the left isn't trying to normalize pedophilia and here we are. I really hope these fuckers get the rope one of these days.

https://www.dangerous.com/49809/hal...3PeoxaeRoAfrqQ7QRCtXEbnzmUBG9_1gXD7iqnhOo0jRM

 

[Dak]

https://www.econlib.org/whos-afraid-of-oscar-lewis/

 

[rms]

the Mort's found this clip



"Good on Jerry for telling CK to not say my pals!"

"But wait, here's Jerry banging a 17 year old!"

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[arg]

 

[Dak]

Saw Vice. Really nicely done piece of propaganda. If it had been made during the Obama presidency I would have considered the makers men/women of principle.

 

[Einherjar86]

Saw Vice. Really nicely done piece of propaganda. If it had been made during the Obama presidency I would have considered the makers men/women of principle.

But it’s not a nicely done piece of propaganda. It’s total shit.

 

[Dak]

But it’s not a nicely done piece of propaganda. It’s total shit.

Well there are plenty of points of contention. I meant in terms of presentation.

 

[CiG]

I guess this belongs here, still not even sure whether it's a real article and not just satire...

Activist Slams Curing Genetic Diseases as Threat to Disabled Identity: It’s 'Actually Genocide.'

A prominent disabilities activist spoke against the use of genetic editing to eliminate diseases from birth because it would be tantamount to a "genocide" against the culture of the disabled.

Alice Wong, who served on President Barack Obama's National Council on Disabilities, is the founder of the Disability Visibility Project. In a Dec. 19 episode of "Flash Forward," a podcast that considers the social repercussions of hypothetical future developments, Wong discussed the possibility of human-embryo gene editing reaching a point at which certain disabilities can be treated at (or before) birth and thus eradicated.

"We're talking about removal of diseases," she said. "That's forever. That's a change -- a modification -- that will be passed on to future generations. So that's actually genocide. It's a form of eugenics where certain lived experiences are seen as undesirable and unimaginable."

Wong, who has spinal muscular atrophy, relies on machine ventilation. "My life is better" thanks to medical advancements, she said. But when it comes to CRISPR -- the gene-editing tool that has recently been used for the first time on human babies to prevent HIV transmission -- Wong is worried that the ethical implications have not been fully considered.

"A lot of this conversation [around CRIPSR] is about the removal of suffering and pain and disease," she said. "Whenever I hear stuff like that -- they're talking about me, people of my community."

.....Rebecca Cokley, who -- like Wong -- served on Barack Obama's National Council on Disabilities, offered a similar perspective in a Washington Post op-ed last year. She argued that disabled people are a community unto themselves and that eliminating their conditions means erasing the potential future of their culture. She asked, "Where is the line between what society perceives to be a horrible genetic mutation and someone’s culture?"

 

[Vegard Pompey]

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