Pseudo-intellectuals first seek to convince themselves that they are true intellectuals, especially when they are unaware of what they are or what they are not, and they usually are not. This theater or performance of appearance begins in the mirror itself.
The problem is not that bad art exists, but that it is elevated to the heights that should be reserved exclusively for high culture.
Ideologically fanatical individuals are at similar levels of insanity to untreated psychotic individuals. Perhaps the biggest difference between them is that, while typical psychosis causes subjective discomfort, atypical psychosis, generated by ideological indoctrination, has the completely opposite effect and, therefore, can perhaps be considered even more dangerous...
Regarding the mimicry of opportunistic or parasitic strategies in nature and extrapolation to the human geopolitical context:
The same situation, of one species deceiving another, posing as itself, invading its living space, usually that of a social species, and taking advantage of this deception to benefit. So, this opportunistic mimicry also occurs in the Western world, where a certain tribe of "chosen ones" poses as "native whites" to do exactly what is perceived in the natural environment...
Deception, usurpation, exploitation, even the destruction of the host species...
But make no mistake, because this type of parasitism has been characteristic of every complex society or civilization...
The example of this tribe was only used because it is an accurate manifestation of this type of mimicry in a human context.
If the right produces constructive shit and the left destructive shit, it is because the right's shit is more moral than structural, while the left, in trying to deconstruct this structure, ends up destroying it—the only structure that exists.
How to think rationally with an example:
First, ask fundamental questions about the topic. For example, "racism."
Who is defining these or those concepts?
(Who is defining the concept of racism? Ans: Ideologically biased individuals and/or groups...)
How objective and precise are these definitions?
(Ans: The concept of racism has not been defined in the most objective way because it has been done so vaguely, leaving room for confusion with other types of behavior or tendencies, for example, the confusion between personal taste and racial prejudice, or between negative opinion and negative generalization.)
But how do we define objectivity when it comes to an abstract construct?
(Ans: Precisely because it is an abstract construct, the concept of racism should be as strict as possible, the most objective way to define an abstraction. For example, my concept of it, as a generalization between behavior and race or ethnicity, "everyone in group X is like that," for example.)
The level of subjectivity in an aesthetic judgment depends on what is being compared. For example, comparing French (standard or Parisian) with Polish will inevitably result in the conclusion that the former is more aesthetically pleasing than the latter, if Polish seems to have a constant hissing sound, while French sounds more elaborate and, therefore, more sophisticated. It would be like comparing a beautiful flower to a blade of grass on the ground...
It seems common for those who define themselves as "independent" to be essentially stingy individualists.
"There is no absolute truth"
The denial of the existence of absolute truths is a declaration of absolute truth...
The vast majority of moral arguments are essentially emotional blackmail. But some blackmail is "better" or fairer and more objective than others.
Those who leave the "flock" of a traditional religion—that is, those who leave a typically religious ideological indoctrination but end up becoming very ideologically biased "progressives"—have merely exchanged one indoctrination or brainwashing for another...
The influence of the environment on human intelligence is only more significant, but never absolute, during the first formative years, of immersion in basic education, while biological or genetic influence becomes progressively significant the higher the level of complexity of knowledge, as it expresses more purely vocational aspects. It's basically the difference between learning to read and write and directing one's own interests at a much more complex and/or specific level.
The right is more about aggression and homicide, and the left is about immolation and suicide. If the traditional right has historically been a force of oppression and destruction, it has been more about attacking those it considers threats, but never, or primarily, itself.
While the left, especially the identitarian left, currently dominant in Western nations, has acted as a self-destructive or implosive force.
Culture is not the cause of human behavior, but one of its effects.
Old-school or classically trained actors (obviously) resemble classical dancers more than modern actors because they are also products of a system that prioritizes (or prioritized) talent over appearance. Currently, the most talented actors tend to be those who work in theater, precisely because it is a remnant of their profession's past, since theater continues to prioritize talent over appearance...
On expressions or statements that have aged poorly
"Class consciousness"
It has progressively become synonymous with hypocrisy and ideological fanaticism.
Indoctrination has a neutral or essential meaning and a pejorative meaning. In a neutral sense, it is any doctrine followed by an individual or group. Every culture has its indoctrination, its modus operandi, if no culture survives without a doctrine. Indoctrination, in a pejorative sense, is the opposite of education, because the former consists of transmitting information according to the wishes of the authorities who hold the power to transmit it, and not based on more objective, impartial, or rational criteria. Education, ideally, is the practice of wisdom itself.
Much of what is commonly called "the left" boils down to emotional blackmail and supposed good intentions.
Those who put "kindness" before knowledge also put ignorance before it.
Kindness without knowledge is no different from evil with knowledge.
The rational artist is a rare bird. Most artists are rationally idiots.
Intellectually pedantic and politically fanatical individuals are literally insufferable.
A narrative is an event, situation, or phenomenon described in the language of feeling. And therefore, it tends to be expressed imprecisely or even as a distortion of the facts.
