@GabrielRyley@nahtigala@prototypell It’s the line of reasoning. In Gnosticisms proper case it’s the existence of suffering period but you can sub in hell for the same result: human existence is ultimately bad and should not continue and God/demiurge was either foolish or actively malicious in creating our world
@GabrielRyley@nahtigala@prototypell Anti natalism in that sense is basically stating that life is not worth having because of the possibility of hell. To that end human existence would be something of a wrong. What you’re saying is not quite identical to Gnosticism but it’s close.
@LewisWetzel148@Ulysses_Wept@memeticsisyphus Yeah. I can think of some ideas, particularly with Mark, I was just wondering if you had a specific example in mind. Yes the things about false language, bureaucracy obscuring brutality and so on. The psychological torture that Mark and Winston undergo. Yeah I can see it.
@RC_Free_D@DanielleFong But Batman literally *does* gamble with his life to save others. He doesn’t just have an automatic win button against armed criminals. It’s almost the only thing he does.
@FamedCelebrity You have no evidence for any of this. For all we know irl blue would be higher because people thinking about their kids dying because they picked blue etc.
@Jia8088@shagbark_hick That's a myth. the Commission of Government by mandate had to post surpluses and had been doing so since being put in power. By the end of the Second World War they had millions in the bank
@alina_aalx@AsyncCollab@paularambles The labourers represented by the Luddites were brutally impoverished by their failure to stop or impede technological change.