User Controls
Posts by Kev
-
2021-02-02 at 4:34 PM UTC in People in relationships that brag about getting laid
-
2021-02-02 at 4:26 PM UTC in depersonalization
-
2021-02-02 at 4:24 PM UTC in How will automation affect society?
Originally posted by Lanny 1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.
2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.
5. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM
6. Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.
7. But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, “politically correct” types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by “leftism” will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of leftist psychology. (Also, see paragraphs 227-230.)
8. Even so, our conception of leftism will remain a good deal less clear than we would wish, but there doesn’t seem to be any remedy for this. All we are trying to do here is indicate in a rough and approximate way the two psychological tendencies that we believe are the main driving force of modern leftism. We by no means claim to be telling the WHOLE truth about leftist psychology. Also, our discussion is meant to apply to modern leftism only. We leave open the question of the extent to which our discussion could be applied to the leftists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.” Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.
FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
10. By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self- hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.
11. When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities. The terms “negro,” “oriental,” “handicapped” or “chick” for an African, an Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory connotation. “Broad” and “chick” were merely the feminine equivalents of “guy,” “dude” or “fellow.” The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves. Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject the word “pet” and insist on its replacement by “animal companion.” Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the world “primitive” by “nonliterate.” They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. (We do not mean to imply that primitive cultures ARE inferior to ours. We merely point out the hypersensitivity of leftish anthropologists.)
12. Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto- dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to upper-middle-class families.
13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)
14. Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.
15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.
16. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
17. Art forms that appeal to modern leftish intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.
18. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can ask serious questions about the foundations of scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psychological needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.
19. The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person has not wholly lost faith in himself. He has a deficit in his sense of power and self-worth, but he can still conceive of himself as having the capacity to be strong, and his efforts to make himself strong produce his unpleasant behavior. [1] But the leftist is too far gone for that. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable. Hence the collectivism of the leftist. He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.
20. Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.
you are only scratching the surface of the problems. everything you describe is a symptom of the feminization of soyciety which is a symptom of the elites wanting to consolidate their power by paralyzing the instinct of revolt in the working class masses.
The union of soviet socialist republics won WWII, nuff said. had they faggotized their population, the union would still exist, ironically. its what failing states do before they become failed states. rome, ancient greece, babylon, all of them had gay rights and WYMYNZ LIBURRATION just a few generations before they crumbled to shit. -
2021-02-02 at 4 PM UTC in Bookmarks and Favorites are an outdated concept.your proposal is a little vague sophie, for what topic are we gathering a bunch of bookmarks for? hacking, web design, mining crypto? you trying to start a wiki?
-
2021-02-02 at 3:50 PM UTC in How can two gay people be 'married'?
-
2021-02-02 at 3:37 PM UTC in Honestly, fuck white people
Originally posted by Sophie As a White person of Nordic and Germanic ancestry. I can tell you that at least in the case of the people that settled from Latvia to the Moscow area, along the Dnipr, into Ukraine and as far as the Black Sea can trace some of their ancestry back to Finland and perhaps parts of Norway. When they first settled the North-Eastern parts of Europe back in the Iron Age or maybe even earlier. These peoples were known as the Kyivan Rus. As such these Finno-Ugric peoples have more genetically in common with the Nordic peoples than they did with the Slavic and Asiatic people of the time.
Now over time, the lines got blurred. But i do consider people with Kyivan Rus or Finno-Ugric ancestry as part of the white race, just a different family tree.
uralic peoples are asiatic people from the ural mountains, they are not native to europe at all. they are some of the most existentially insecure people i have interacted with on the internet, always projecting their mongrelism onto their neighbors so they wont feel like the foreigners they know they are. nordic people are almost as pathetic with their fake pride in their fake ethnic purity. -
2021-02-02 at 3:29 PM UTC in Do you want to change?
Originally posted by Sophie I'll take you on as an apprentice if you'd like. Teach you computer stuff. You can fill in your own curriculum, and you can set the bar yourself. So if you want to get results now, with as little effort as possible, you set the bar to 'skid'. If you're interested in a topic beyond the basics, you could do that too. Since you don't like structure, schedule nor routines, you can just send me a message, asking about a subject, then you specify the depth of study. And i'll get back to you whenever with some nuggets of cyber wisdom, or a quick trick and series of commands if you wanna go the skid route.
Might be fun.
i might buy a few thousand zombies if you got any. -
2021-02-02 at 3:28 PM UTC in Wrecked My Truck Last Night
Originally posted by Sophie It's a start. Big money will wise up to this though. If firm X is over shorting stock A and reddit wants to kill firm X, reddit might pull a short squeeze again by buying up stock A. Now if firm Y buys a load of call options for stock A they are betting that reddit will make the value of stock A go through the roof. If reddit then proceeds with the short squeeze firm Y will make a ton of money. It's kind of an uno reverse on the situation. And it would be some serious 4D chess if both firm X and Y's portfolios are managed by an over-arching financial organization or fund. Resulting in net gains for the fund in question.
so this is useless in the long run then? figures. -
2021-02-02 at 3:23 PM UTC in help me unlock this phoneisnt icloud an online account? i would need her credentials to get in but i cant even get in her phone so its a lost cause at this point, i already have it up on a darknet market waiting for a buyer.
-
2021-02-01 at 4:36 PM UTC in The greatest cat in the entire multiverse
-
2021-02-01 at 3:24 PM UTC in Wrecked My Truck Last Night
Originally posted by Sophie The subreddit hasn't been censored yet. And even if it were you don't use Reddit to trade stocks. Ironically one of the apps they use for trading called "Robin Hood" stopped their users from buying gamestop stock, so anyone using that app could only hold their stock, or sell. Robin Hood has a fiduciary duty to the people using their platform to trade however, so they have two class action lawsuits coming their way. That's the latest i heard about that platform at least.
In any case the government might bail them out, they might not. If they do though on top of Biden's new 1.9 trillion dollar or thereabouts relief bill, the dollar is going to be losing value faster than it already is. Also, you can't really stop 100k people from buying different stock that the hedge funds are shorting to start up this cycle again. You do at some point have to stop bailing out hedge funds to the tune of billions of dollars, because you will inflate the dollar into oblivion if you do Weimar Republic style.
the peasants occupying wall street for real, i love it. this is the kind of raid that shouldve been coordinated on 4chan and totse but alas, we were young kids with little money back then.
but im still not convinced that this will do any meaningful damage to the elites, they control the economy, they own all the properties and companies. all they have to do is keep raising the costs of living when they arent happy with their earnings. half the country isnt even participating in the stock market because everybody is living paycheck to paycheck. -
2021-02-01 at 2:06 PM UTC in Wrecked My Truck Last Night
Originally posted by aldra Short version is that big hedge funds gambled on Gamestop tanking and committed to buy shares in such a way that that the lower stock value is in a week, the more money they make.
People on Reddit have been buying up shares and drove them from like $5 to $350.
What Sophie's saying is that most people aren't cashing out to make a profit, they're holding onto those shares and buying MORE to drive the price up further and put those kikes out of business.
i see, but wont the gubmint just bail the kikes out and cant the subreddit simply be censored? -
2021-02-01 at 2:03 PM UTC in Sophie has passed away
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood liking teenagers is disgusting. Yeah I'm sure they got a nice ass if you stare at it long enough but when I see girls this age all I can think is they are just annoying children
females never stop being annoying children. if anything, they get more infantile as they get older. -
2021-02-01 at 11:42 AM UTC in Wrecked My Truck Last Night
-
2021-02-01 at 8 AM UTC in Credit Cards for 30 year old beginners.is the $200 really a cash bonus or like a credit bonus? i never used a credit card in my life either, those things are scams.
-
2021-02-01 at 7:46 AM UTC in Sophie has passed away
Originally posted by Sophie Well kr0z is an actual rapist, and he used to be insufferable, he was going hard on the pedo angle but the sheer hypocrisy is what turned the hive mind against him. Then as i have told you, an effort was made to dox him. And i took that dox and issued a Fatwa on his ass over at Baphomet.
baphomet? -
2021-02-01 at 7:38 AM UTC in Its safe to say lanny has given up
Originally posted by larrylegend8383 Footage that tries to make the case that Joe is a pedophile because of how awkwardly close he gets to children yet also shows him acting just as awkwardly towards grown women and even elderly women. Lolz right.
And the Newspunch article is talking
about a former roommate's "story"
Slander and propaganda isn't unique to any "era" ya garbage piece of shit
what makes you think all pedos are exclusive? -
2021-01-31 at 7:14 PM UTC in depersonalizationguys, how do you deal with depersonalization? since my new years escapade i have not been feeling right. nothing feels real, like everything is a dream. im no longer depressed but everything is still unsettling, i feel so eerie and disconnected from the world. i want to just ghost and live in silence but the minute i completely isolate, the depression and irritability kicks back in, yet i have no desire to interact with anyone right now.
i want this shit to go away and i cant understand why i cant responsibly, reasonably roll once or twice a year without dealing with this while i watch others brag about rolling every 2 weeks for years without problems. what the fuck is wrong with my biology? -
2021-01-31 at 6:25 PM UTC in thats freaking ridiculous guys
-
2021-01-31 at 6:22 PM UTC in Sophie has passed away
Originally posted by Bill Krozby Well everyone here from a few years ago believe it.
My info was spammed on a daily basis for quite awhile. Thats how fatchew got my phone number, I would never give someone like that my number.
But yeah I don't know why he went after me like that. I didn't think I said anything that bad like everyone else does here.
who is fatchew?
i have seen others make fun of sophie without him flipping his shit so im curious how you managed to hit such a nerve. personally, what would get more under my skin is someone defiling whatever loli im looking at, like when vinny posted a pic of this somewhat bored cutie eating a banana. she was so damn adorable i was imagining hugging her and then someone started talking about dicking her down.
ruined my fuckin positive mood, i mightve doxxed that cuntrat if i could.
