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Based definition. Wise words to live by.
submitted 2 years ago by RichardsonDavis from i.imgur.com
[–]filbs111 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
Gaslighting: There is no such thing as gaslighting. You are going mad.
[–]RichardsonDavis[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
I think the definition implies that the term is not very useful outside of arguments outside the internet or in a debate setting.
I do agree with that.
[–]BISH 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
Kafkaesque: relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka; marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: the Kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations; Kafkaesque bureaucracies.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kafkaesque
[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
His niece said "uncle Franz was too optimistic".
[–]Anman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
That is one hell of a user name in that image.
[–]tiny-brown-mug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
Urban Dictionary!!! I can't believe that site's still up! Cool.
[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding. We inherited familial neuroses and saw insidious oppression and exploitation in all social relationships, stifling our ability to relate to others or ourselves without cynicism. Activists anxiously pore over interactions, looking for ways in which the mundane conceals domination. To see every interaction as containing hidden violence is to become a permanent victim, because if all you are is a nail, everything looks like a hammer.
The paradigm of suspicion leaves the radical exhausted and misanthropic, because any action or statement can be shown with sufficient effort to hide privilege, a microaggression, or unconscious bias. Quoted in JM, the anarchist professor Richard Day proposes "infinite responsibility": "we can never allow ourselves to think that we are 'done,' that we have identified all of the sites, structures, and processes of oppression 'out there' or 'in here,' inside our own individual and group identities." Infinite responsibility means infinite guilt, a kind of Christianity without salvation: to see power in every interaction is to see sin in every interaction. All that the activist can offer to absolve herself is Sisyphean effort until burnout. Eady's summarization is simpler: "Everything is problematic."
Escape from the paradigm of suspicion is hindered by kafkatrapping: the idea that opposition to the radical viewpoint proves the radical viewpoint. Minorities who question it have internalized their oppression, and privileged individuals who question it prove their guilt.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122
So to clarify, we became the way we are now, or rather, the West (West being the US, Canada and Western European States) became the way it is now because of intellectual inbreeding, like Marxist knowledge just gets more diverse while those that have ideas that may be beneficial is thrown out. And that has trickled itself down to society.
Do correct me if I'm wrong. I wish to test my understanding of this.
And this paradigm of suspicion, I take it it's the vigilance thing. Only those who are vigilant are free or something. Right?
And that with vigilance comes eternal suspicion and that provides nihilism.
That nihilism is countered by kafkatrapping.
Did I get that right u/ChipIt?
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