cavitationfetishist2

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  • You’ve just thought about it more deeply than most of these people combined.

    I’m sorry you’re self aware. Drugs will help with the pain, but can make the underlying problem worse. Philosophy may seem tempting, but don’t-it will make the problem worse.

    Edit:
    If you want a less dismissive but very tired slightly high answer: we like to think we’re conscious higher beings who function on logic and imagination and individual will and all these other strong forces that emerge from within us.

    And we can be. All those things are possible. They happen. But generally we’re not, and whether by structural pressures confected by centuries of authoritarianism or some evolutional quirk or the fact the warming climate has been starving all our brains of oxygen for over a century; we tend to avoid thinking when possible.

    So there’s identity pressures and social pressures best compared to running parts of your computer’s operating system off the cloud and millennia of innovation in abstraction and groupthink to keep anyone from ever having to think or form opinions for themselves.

    They don’t make sense. They’re not trying to. They do not bend towards justice. They don’t even know what that is and trying to tell them would be a kind of attack.



  • cavitationfetishist2@quokk.autoAutism@lemmy.worldGood point
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    6 hours ago

    Yes they communicate entirely through implication, but they are not conscious and do not generally think at all; it’s just a collection of reflexes, with very rare actual thought and zero self awareness ever.

    Everything they do makes more sense when you remember this.