ArcticGong

Ayn Rand has a rape passage in one of her books. I Can’t remember if it is atlas shrugged or fountainhead. I was kind shocked when I encountered that.

I have done too much hate-listening to Whatifalthist, Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneux, The Lotus Eaters, Sargon of Akkad, and Joe Rogan to balance my perspective. Some of these were a kind of intellectual role model to me. But, I think it has mostly been a waste of time. I struggle to find one reasonable right-wing talking head who has generally good sense-making ability.

"Either Trump or Sanders" is the interesting take-away from this guy. Also, Trump is a sign of the decline.

https://youtu.be/iTACH1eVIaA?si=N8BD3A4Yxm3Gfj6Y

Does geography count as a grand narrative? Then I’m a strong proponent of its validity. Because I’ve observed that naturally endowed countries tend to do better than less gifted countries. Not to discount human capital and ideas, but some places are just bound to be more successful. But I’m still a fan of many post-modern concepts.

@Husseinisdoingfine School adversity seems to make people very depressed so you’re definitely not alone. This is evident from many Asian countries were student go ahead and do the thing your thinking of doing. However, you seem to live in America which is a land of many many opportunities so there is definitely room to make a transition to another field. Life is beautiful, but it takes practice to see this while pre-occupied with survival. Hope you get better, take care.

I’d love to see him championing free speech in china.

Now, by coincidence, I’m learning about post modernism in university. And the episodes really filled In many gaps that my lecturers don’t have time or incentive to elaborate on. The episode was really interesting and illuminating.

I feel that you had to be dull-minded while surviving and being responsible for your loved ones. Imagine working in a line where you do simple monotone activity all day. After finishing your mind numbing work you’d have no desire to contemplate the existence of the universe. But, if you’re part a of community that encourages this, you’d have a ready made scaffolding structure to get started and stay on track.

Home ownership, geopolitical tension, the loneliness epidemic and uncertainties about the future.

How many men of African descent are responsible? @Schizophonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_serial_killers

Inception level bullshit.

Survival is the game we’re all playing. This identity business is huge part of it. Very shamelessly bullshiti/bullshitesque/shitbully. Like a British person, Elon Musk, if he considers himself that way, complains and actively inflames a situation in a country that he isn’t not a resident in. Why, one could ask? Because of bullshit, simply. Entitled brats like to eat their cake and insisting on keeping it. Entitled to be British or make up an identity like Rhodesian, South African, Canadian or American. I’m considered a person black African in Europe, then naturally Trump or Elon should be called white European person living in America. But bullshit privilege absolve them from modifiers.

Funny thing ,this, identity. A black person does something wrong in Britain like this Axel and his identity is attributed to be a driving factor for his action. He is a second generation immigrant. But I wonder if anyone thinks the same way about, for example, Donald Trump? His grandfather came from Germany making him a third generation German living in US.

I’ll add entitlement to the list of drivers for this riot and the push to the right we see globally. There reasoning of is, this is my piece of land , security, identity , my worldview etc and don’t you dare question this, their thinking goes I guess. And the culture wars ensues.