"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable #heterosexual penetrative intercourse, and to help the child #conform to #gender and sexual norms"
#SocialMedia#ContentModeration#Polarization#Ideology: "Today, we live with the irony that the intense pitch and total saturation of political conversation in every part of our lives—simply pick up your phone and rejoin the fray—create the illusion that important ideas are right on the verge of being actualized or rejected. But the form of that political discourse—millions of little arguments—is actually what makes it impossible to process and follow what should be an evolving and responsive conversation. We mistake volume for weight; how could there be so many posts about something with no acknowledgment from the people in charge? Don’t they see how many of us are expressing our anger? These questions elicit despair, because the poster believes that no amount of dissent will actually be heard. And when that happens, in any forum, the posters blame the mods.
The mods do have supporters: “normie” liberals and conservatives who still put a degree of faith in the expert and media classes and who want, more than anything, to restore some bright line of truth so that society can continue to function. A central question of our current moment is whether that faith is enough to unite a critical mass of voters, or whether the medium we have chosen for everything, from photos of our children to our most private conversations, will simply not allow for any consensus, especially one that appeals to a population as broadly complacent as the American consumer class. Normies, who are mostly unified in their defense of the status quo, still wield a reasonable amount of political power, and they will continue to exist in some form. But, as even more of our lives take place within the distortions of online life, how much longer will there be a widely agreed-upon status quo to defend?" https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/arguing-ourselves-to-death
Zizek explores many different ideologies that crop up around the topic of ecological disaster.
I don't agree with everything he says. I'm sharing this nevertheless, because it made me think if the reason for my objections is due to the text hitting too close to home.
Is there any merit to framing conflicts of the recent past in ideological terms?
For example, the events leading up to WWII could be described as #fascism vs #communism, until you learn about the economic and military pacts Bolsheviks made with Hitler and Mussolini.
Sure, Brownshirts were fighting communists on the streets of Berlin, but once each side captured their own state, differences were set aside for the greater project of making their respective nations stronger.
As the United States faces yet another showdown over the federal debt ceiling, we examine the roots of the conflict by looking at the "North/Paul Strategy," a decades-old plan to provoke a financial collapse and then seize power. Rooted in libertarian economic theory and Christian Reconstructionist doctrine, Gary North and Ron Paul's ideas laid the foundation for the Tea Party and later, January 6th.
Dave chats with James Scaminaci III, a scholar and expert on Fourth Generation Warfare, and Frederick Clarkson, who has been studying religious extremism for decades, and is an expert on the New Apostolic Reformation.
They look at why economic eschatology is a persistent feature of American political life, and how we might break the vicious "cycle of doom."
Great interview. I especially liked the part where he connected energy-blindness of mainstream economics with its ideological role in maintaining contemporary power structures.
We, the artists and patrons of #music in #Australia, condemn in the strongest possible terms #Knotfest and the headliner of this year’s tour, #Pantera.
Pantera’s singer, #PhilAnselmo, has been documented on multiple occasions to be promoting #whitesupremacist/fascist/neo-nazi #ideology. These actions have led to the recent cancellation of a great many of the band’s concerts in #Europe.
It seems that young #women (perhaps influenced by the #MeToo movement & #feminism more generally) are becoming more 'liberal' on issues from #migration to #racism when compared to males of the same age.
John Burn-Murdoch (FT) argues while this has been relatively down-played due to young people's relative lack of engagement with formal #politics (they vote less), this shift in the #gender patterns around #ideology may start to have a major impact on #politics in years to come.
"Authentic ‘consciousness raising’ can only be the ‘raising’ of people’s thinking to the level’ of positive (non-guilty) self-consciousness: developing their basic subjectivity, free of #ideology and imposed morality in all its forms.
The essence of what many leftists, therapy-mongers, racism awareness trainers and sisterisers term ‘consciousness raising’ is their practice of beating people into unconsciousness with their ideological billyclubs."
"Possessed by an ideology, you may feel that your speech is divinely inspired, or that the wisdom of the ancients is speaking through you. Or at minimum you can be absolutely certain of its truth without checking, because it unambiguously aligns with—it authentically expresses—the Higher Truth of the system itself."
I see these lists all the time and they always piss me off. Train yourself in the dominant ideology! Despite some of the titles, do NOT think critically about your society! Work, act, and think like a good, aspiring (if temporarily embarrassed) capitalist! Be more selfish! Cultivate traditional masculine virtues!
Understand that we are up against a #whiteSupremacist#cult in November 2024. Millions of #Americans have decided that the #Nazis were right, and their #ideology should reign supreme in the #UnitedStates. This isn't #fearmongering. This is the #reality we are facing. Voting Blue is the only hope we have of preserving our #republic. If we fail, we'll never again have another opportunity to #vote.
#Fascism isn’t an ancient relic or an outdated term; it has returned as a living, breathing process transforming and weaponizing the state against its people.
Few remain from the generation that watched the #ideology take hold and mutate and unfold its horrors the first time, and without that living memory, we are challenged to explain what fascism was and how it worked.
The #stupid! It burns! Another #FoxNews host humiliates herself on her own show. First of all, #communism and #fascism are diametrically opposed systems of #government; You can't be both a #communist and a #fascist. And second, fascism is an inherently #rightwing#ideology; the left cannot be fascists. Either this girl never went to high school, or this is a shameless attempt to mislead her viewers.
My selective beliefs are better than yours.
I don't think Christian Churches are facing enough persecution today.
That's why they have time to spew the hate that they do. Silence them.
Force them to compete against one other over who can best regurgitate the God's orthodox #ideology.
Reward those that most successfully regurgitate the God's orthodox ideology with great #jobs and access to influence by giving them A's and references.
Punish those who think critically by relegating them to low paying jobs and obscurity through low grades and withholding references.
"As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory #manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency."
"The argument for total acceleration of technological development is not about optimism, except in the sense that the Andreessens and Thiels and Musks are certain that they will succeed. It’s pessimism about democracy — and ultimately, humanity."
#Republicans are truly the dumbest people on the planet. Imagine being an adult in #elected office and believing that someone's fashion choices are indicative of their #ideology. How TF is a #hoodie proof that someone is a #Marxist? This is just the latest #evidence that none of these #rightwing#lunatics have even the slightest idea what #Marxism is. To them, it's just a generic #pejorative for anyone they don't like. Shame on you if you #vote for these #clowns.
We were designed to enjoy life's pleasures, not just to constantly seek self-improvement. Today’s self-help ideology echoes Nietzsche’s concern about the dangers of ascetic practices as a form of self-punishment.
The dark ideology of self help | Alexis Papazoglou (iai.tv)
We were designed to enjoy life's pleasures, not just to constantly seek self-improvement. Today’s self-help ideology echoes Nietzsche’s concern about the dangers of ascetic practices as a form of self-punishment.