MULTIVERSEConsensus reality is bourgeois.
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Wouldn’t catch Me believing in that rich people stuff
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This is a good read on the topic: Crimes of Perception: Individualism and Consensus Reality
Hell yeah! Would you be so kind as to repost this to !soulism@multiverse.soulism.net?
Well. “Soulism” sounds very much opposed to my own worldview and politics, to a point where I’m not really interested in participating in that. But you can do what you want, obviously, it’s just a link to a pdf!
Based on the manifesto, I would suggest that soulism is just another model which divides body from mind ("matter” and “information"), and that it doesn’t account for the way political forces are involved in producing subjectivity, identity, desire, and the individuated bodymind. I had something like a psychotic episode related to mind/body dualism a few years ago, and I try not to engage with or involve myself with ideas like that now, cause it brings back feelings of like, chaos and instability.
Actually, soulism is a misnomer. It has very little to do with dualism and much more to do with anarchism of perception. The more accurate name is anarcho-antirealism. So I hope that’s safer for you to engage with.
Maybe, idk. I’m very much a realist, just in a very, idiosyncratic way I guess. But “anarchism of perception” is appealing to me.
It’s a garbage philosophy based on the ignorant premise that science starts with a conclusion and uses evidence to justify it.
From their manifesto:
…which is not at all how science works today. Bigots will still work backwards from their conclusion to try to justify their bigotry, but good science is emergent and draws no conclusions until sufficient evidence has been gathered. They’re trying to say that (bad) science has been used to justify harm, but rather than saying maliciousness or ignorance are the problems, they’re lazily gesturing around and saying that it’s all of reality that’s the problem.
Meanwhile, everybody getting their own subjective reality absolves the bigots of responsibility, because under the anarcho-antirealist paradigm, it is wrong/harmful to enforce your reality upon others.
Good job listening to those inner warnings, BTW!
No, neither of those two things are true.
I don’t think all scientists work backwards from their own conclusions. But I do think they work forwards from the conclusions of those who came before. Standing on the shoulders of giants, and all that. Science cannot create axioms, so the foundation of scientific knowledge is always nonscientific reasoning and observation.
And I think it’s perfectly appropriate to use violence on those whose worldview is violent. Look up the tolerance paradox sometime for an explanation why.
Ooh, dark object oriented onthology applied layer, awesome. We do live in a postmodern, and denying that and locality of knowledge and legitimacy is borgeosie bs. Sure I’m in your locality on this.
But You’re like, rich of heart, You know?
Aw, thanks!