@loweffort0 @VitaBreva @bilbosfootcomb I’m trying to think of reasons why this neo-“regressive” Christianity is worse but the old Christian evangelical right was pretty bad too. Part of the issue with these regressive Christians is they’re more visible in urban/online spaces than the mostly rural legacy evangelicals
@DylanFooler@Whatapityonyou Genuinely curious, but how could a person like that possibly function, deaf but unable to read English? Unless you mean they spook a language other than English but also happened to know ASL
@BlackRedGuard1 It seems clear to me that they weren’t the dark black of some African populations, but what we would call the “Egyptians” of the pharaonic kingdoms of the lower Nile were definitely fairly dark skinned and would probably pass for Black in modern America
There might be a #dialectic at play here between dominant and dominated, the dominated are increasingly able to exert themselves upon the dominant, and each craft the most ingenuous counterscarps and bastions to fend off the others ideological siege #marxism#philosophy
Social media catapults what is strangest to the very center of our attention. Bizarre, fringe identities which in the before times would pass unnoticed have become the locus of our neurotic will to dominate and control, a will forever centrifugally encompassing more
@MiriVinni Do none of you have jobs? I go to bed at 9 and wake up at 5 every day. How can you possibly afford to stay up until 1 am on weekdays barhopping, if you live in an actual city cocktails are like minimum 15 dollars
If you’re attractive and charming and don’t suffer from actual mental illness life will just be fairly easy. Not saying I am these things but it’s the feeling I get
Although I don’t really like Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum was weirdly prescient about the internet as a “conspiracy machine” people latch onto and draw connections between the craziest things, which might actually be connected but the semantic meaning is obliterated in the process
@dividedwefall21@RenyTure This is such a freaky example of techno hysteria, you make a good point and people psychoanalyze your timeline as your evil id. We’re heading into dark cybernetic places here.