Discussion Peter Boghossian and Street Epistemology

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I have two cousins who are "lefty", both of whom are copypasted caricatures of online bi-adjacent femcel larpers. When I used to attend university I would encounter a few of these types as well, though I was oriented toward the artsy-fartsy side of campus life so maybe that wasn't representative enough. Despite being associated with these people most of my adult life, I'd become immunized early on to the "propaganda" and the performative hatespeech.

Anyway, I caught "glimpses" into their lives from time to time, and honestly I could imagine living in that world, if only for a time. It's populated by pale girls with twitching pussies, some of whom are ugly but most of them are just cute and neotenous and "love-shy", it's a world which I could easily come to live in and so share in their retardation and "give up" a part of myself.



I think that these videos provide fairly accurate glimpses into modern life. Would I subject myself in earnest to this intellectual poverty? I don't know. The feeling of "wanting to be a good person" is a keynote in campus-wide liberalism. Cosplay events, too. But it feels too alien to me anyway, all my cousins think I'm a degenerate so my pathways there are slim. I watch these videos only to give myself a sense of what could have been, had I stomached the retardation without complaint.

 

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a sense of what could have been, had I stomached the retardation without complaint.

It's interesting to think about how certain factors or events in life if they occurred could result in such large variance in personal life outcomes. It's not something I dwell too long about nowadays. It was probably something I'd be very neurotic over when I was in my teenage years, but now that I'm older the time has past anyways, not something really worth mulling over.

You'd have to be particularly conformist or lack critical thought to be able to find yourself belonging among the cultural zeitgeist of today. It's not really a question of complaint, it's something you're kind of a part of from the start.

I always found the liberalism in Western society to be lame and sterile but there's also a deterministic aspect to it as well where if I was born with a slightly different personality or certain experiences happened to me in my lifetime, I'd be hardly distinguishable from the average normie.

 

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You'd have to be particularly conformist or lack critical thought to be able to find yourself belonging among the cultural zeitgeist of today. It's not really a question of complaint, it's something you're kind of a part of from the start.

I always found the liberalism in Western society to be lame and sterile but there's a deterministic aspect where if I was born with a slightly different personality or certain experiences happened to me in my lifetime, I'd be hardly distinguishable from the average normie.

That's probably true. I don't find that there's a possibility to grow into it anymore, and aside from the political repartee I wouldn't be able to rein in the complete personality shift that I would need to undergo. Imagining myself in cosplay is terrifying. I'm not particularly fond of "neopuritanism" but there's something to be said about the humiliation rituals of the left.

I think that criticality in thought immunizes you from political determinism to some extent. I was never fully "insulated" from these spaces, but even I found their antics repulsive on an instinctive level. Despite that, I always dreamed about the social goods I could obtain from that life in the abstract, which I guess won't come to pass.