@TheRodged 99% of the time, when people say "sociopath" they mean narcissist. NPD is the cheat code for high earners; sociopathy is a cheat code for the hood.
@mistericerat This is not new. Large swaths of history lie under the shadows of giants, mentors who uplifted the young and ignorant. Men forget but time remembers; the soul yearns. The French understand this.
@jorgertg98 Anecdotal for sure, but I don't know any parents (gen x, millennial, or gen z) where the grandparents are active participants in the grandchildren's lives despite generally being well off, having the time, and an online presence claiming otherwise
The Fallacy of Relative Privation is a logical fallacy wherein someone tries to invalidate or dismiss your point by insisting something else is worse, implying what you brought up isnβt worth discussing because it isnβt that bad.
People use it a lot to avoid facing reality.
Iamblichus, 1500 years ago, explicitly telling us that yes it is possible to reconstruct damaged traditions:
"For all these reasons, then, let us call upon the gods as our leaders, entrust both ourselves and our discourse to them, and follow wherever they may lead. We should not be deterred by the fact that this school has long been neglected; that it has been hidden beneath estranged teachings and certain secret symbols; that it has been overshadowed by many false and spurious writings; and that it has been obstructed by many other difficulties of the same kind. The will of the gods is enough for us, and with it one can endure difficulties even more perplexing than these."
- Book 1 of On the Pythagorean Life; Literally the first thing he says in the book that he gave his students to read first of all.
I highly advise you to save this quote for future use when arguing with those guys who say "but your line of transmission is broken bro, just become a sufi bro"
@35yearoldfriend You guys are joking but I know someone who was born poor with only 1 working leg, and he watched 12 hours of youtube tutorials for a year after graduating high school. His name? Leonardo da Vinci maybe you've heard of him.