Liberals are afraid that if they start to think about how reality...
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Mar 22, 2025
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Liberals are afraid that if they start to think about how reality is constructed that they'll "go insane" realizing that there is no possibility of ataraxia or "disinterested speculation" of "pure thought" when every act or thought is contributing to the total meaning of reality.
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"What if my Liberal Empiricism was historically contingent & rather than considering myself as an atomic intelligence deducing pure thought from pure hypothetical -- that my self-consciousness is inextricably produced by my role in the reproduction of the human socium..."
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"Well, that would mean that everything I believe is just the ideology of the institutions that have produced my subjectivity-- I am not even myself, I have been given myself in the form of a hypothetical model, & this model is contingent... what if.. I'm... the bad guy..."
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"Probably not, that's probably explainable as the real ideology, is thinking that liberalism is merely ideology, & that's just wishful thinking. Got close to becoming a schizo conspiracy theorist there, thank God I can retreat to my imperial ataraxia comfort gamer zone."
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"I'm right, I'm enjoying myself, you're mad, you suffer, you are not disinterested & unmovable, you cope, I win. I'm a gamer. I'm a liberal. I am destiny."