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u/hypnosifl · 1 pointr/redscarepod

Yeah I'm very into a lot of this stuff too. Your post inspired me to start writing down some thoughts on the connections between them and it got a little out of hand, but I'll post this little manic outburst anyway and maybe you (or others similarly interested in a lot of this stuff) will be able to relate at least some of this to your own reasons for being interested in all these thinkers.

Accelerationism is interesting because I've been into ideas about post-scarcity/fully automated luxury communism for a long time, although I don't agree with the Nick Land/right accelerationist perspective that capitalism is the only system that can push the technological advancement to the max, and I find that the left accelerationists often seem kind of vague about how a transition away from capitalism might actually work and what specific kinds of technologies would be involved (I have my own ideas).

The overlap of kind of "mystical" ideas (like Jung, occult stuff etc.) and sort of cybernetic/psychodynamic perspectives on the way the mind works, and the way self-organizing social dynamics work, is interesting to me too, I think a bunch of the people you mention touch on that, like a lot of Mark Fisher's more esoteric posts on "cold rationalism" on his old k-punk blog, like this one ("The great Cold Rationalist lesson is that everything in the so-called personal is in fact the product of impersonal processes of cause and effect which, in principle if not in fact, could be delineated very precisely. And this act of delineation, this stepping outside the character armour that we have confused with ourselves, is what freedom is.") I don't know if you ever read xenogothic, a former student of Mark Fisher who's really into the "patchwork" idea, but he has a good post here on Nietzsche's ideas about seeing the self in terms of a bunch of interacting "drives" (relating to modern ideas of neural darwinism or agent-based models of the mind, Douglas Hofstadter's models of competing mental 'pressures', and general ideas about the universality of bottom-up Darwinian dynamics in complex adaptive systems which Nick Land seems to have been inspired by) and something he wrote by the title "Self-mastery and moderation and their ultimate motive" which talks about achieving a kind of dynamic balance between different drives where none can overwhelm the others, something I also think sort of relates to Graeber's piece about the universality of "play" among animals here.

So there's maybe some kind of sense in a lot of these guys that there are "higher" state of consciousness or organization that manage to achieve a more complex dynamic balance and integration between a larger number of competing drives or pressures, which you could also maybe relate to Marx's ideas about how human flourishing is best served by "all-round activity" and "all-round development of individuals", and also to Hegelian ideas about stages of growth based on integrating ideas or desires that previously seemed contradictory. If you're into mystical/occult ideas I recommend that in addition to Jung you check out Ken Wilber, who's a bit of a New Agey crackpot at times but has some really interesting intuitions about a sort of evolutionary vision of spirituality that tries to integrate Hegel with psychological notions of stages of development and the idea of spirituality as pointing the way to more advanced/integrated stages, like those discussed in this slatestarcodex post...I talked here a little more about some of the stuff I find interesting in Wilber.

Also on the subject of more vs. less integrated and "holistic" forms of consciousness and possible relations to political differences, I really recommend The Master and His Emissary on the modes of the left vs. right brains, along with this thesis that discusses the possible connection of left and right politics to mental modes involving "strong categorization" or "weak categorization". They sort of come to opposite conclusions about whether the more holistic mode is oriented more with left or right politics, or more conservative or more modernizing religious and philosophical movements...I think the relation of these mental modes to political/philosophical/religious movements is more complicated than the binaries either one seems to set up. (For me a key is that people on the right tend to see creativity and psychological "flow" flourishing best within certain kinds of formal rules and boundaries that you just take for granted, like the verse structures in certain kinds of poetry like haikus--I remember Anna talked about this idea of creativity thriving on constraints at one point--whereas the leftists/modernists are more interested in going up to a meta-level and not taking traditional boundaries and rules for granted, trying to rethink them. There's also some stuff in The Master and His Emissary about how while a certain kind of verbal abstraction is mainly rooted in the left brain, ability to understand and be creative with other types of abstract domains like math and understanding of causality actually requires more integrated activity of both the left and the right brain.)

Of the people you mentioned, I think Moldbug is probably the least interesting to me--I can sort of see what others who don't share his right-wing views (Justin Murphy for example) might find inspiring when they read him, like "Cathedral" and ideas about "patchwork", but to me whatever's good in those ideas can be found in earlier leftist thinkers. The Cathedral is basically Gramsci's ideas about hegonomic ideas under liberal capitalism, with some additional ideas I think are basically wrong like the idea that these kinds of ideas wouldn't have developed if not for the legacy of puritanism/calvinism (I think if you had some sort of alternate history where some totally different culture developed capitalism, the scientific and industrial revolutions, and Enlightenment style questioning of tradition and desire to justify philosophical and moral ideas in rational terms, most of the broad ideas and politics Moldbug attributes to the 'Cathedral' would have developed in much the same way). And the idea of nation-states devolving into more local government bodies that experiment with many different laws and ways of living is something that can be found in Murray Bookchin's ideas about post-scarcity anarchism.

u/doremitard · 11 pointsr/redscarepod

On abiogenesis and how mitochondria evolved, read The Vital Question by Nick Lane. Presents a very good account of the genetic evidence for endosymbiosis (how bacteria could integrate into an existing cell) and how life could have initially evolved via a “metabolism first” mechanism in cool undersea vents.

We don’t really see it as weird, but all metabolism involves exploiting an ion gradient. Mitochondria generate a proton gradient and then use that to power the phosphorylation of ATP - which is a weirdly roundabout way of doing things. Why is it like that? The theory Lane puts forward is that originally, the ion gradients used for metabolism were naturally occurring ones that arose between thin-walled fissures in mineral (olividine) vents. That’s how life started, and then RNA and DNA came later.

On human empathy, it’s obviously a huge advantage in evolutionary terms, since cooperating in tribes, villages, nations is what allowed us to outcompete other apes and hominids.

Why would you help a random stranger? Well, throughout most of human history, if you found someone hurt in a ditch, they’d be part of your community or a nearby one, so your first instinct is to help. Of course, if you saw that they had some kind of outgroup marker, you might be less inclined to cooperate.

Human intelligence is cultural - a single human on their own isn’t smart enough to figure out how to survive, we can only do so because of the accumulated cultural knowledge that enables you to know what plants are good to eat, how to hunt, and so on. Other animals have some cultural knowledge, but transmitting culture, not raw intelligence, is the main advantage humans have over other species. In some tests of pattern matching, chimps outperform people, just like autistic savants can have amazing cognitive powers, but because they lack the ability to tap into cultural intelligence, they still can’t function in society. See The Secret of Our Success by Henrich.

u/larping-lizards · 3 pointsr/redscarepod

Yooo I just bought this sun lamp and I'm excited to use it. It's $30 and has brightness & temperature settings which seems nice since I'd like to get a nice cozy warm glow going alllll winter :) hope it works lol

u/PointyPython · 1 pointr/redscarepod

Lol well at least I hope those articles of his I sent you were new to you :)

There's an astrologer called Eugenio Carutti who's also excellent (among many others, he's written two hugely influential tomes on the Ascendants and the Moons, not only describing each but threading an excellent case for astrology as a key companion of the psychoanalytic process, him being a pyschotherapist as well); also Liz Greene who everyone and their mum knows wrote Barriers and Boundaries: The Horoscope and the Defenses of the Personality which is terrific.

u/alexandrawallace69 · 7 pointsr/redscarepod

Good reading/listening suggestions:

Listen to Chapo Ep 42: Uber for Ubermenshen

Then read or listen to Bad Blood

Then listen to The Dropout podcast

If Holmes was Russian I think the ladies would be positive about her and say she did nothing wrong. But if she was Russian she'd be in jail for life right now lol

Holmes also had a Pakistani daddy 20 years older than her

u/Otakundead · 1 pointr/redscarepod

Self-Deception (New Problems of Philosophy) by Eric Funkhouser
It’s a really great overview of the subject.

Self-Deception and Morality by Mike W. Martin

Those were the best on the topic.

u/Nexusmaxis · 0 pointsr/redscarepod

/u/perfectangelicgirl just suck it up and drink cafe soylent vanilla, I get that its ""neoliberal"" and ""for boys"" or whatever, but its pretty much made for your eating disorder. You dont have to make it a fucking lifestyle, its just efficient, balanced calories that you can drink in 10 seconds without making you feel full or bloated. they even have one called cafe so you can pretend its boutique or whatever you have to do in your pretty little head to pretend its not a utility meal replacement drink.

u/azs159 · 9 pointsr/redscarepod

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Criminal-Tattoo-Encyclopaedia-I/dp/0955862078/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=russian+prison+tattoos&qid=1565314534&s=gateway&sr=8-1

I have all three and they are great to read/flip through. A small part of history I never really gave much thought towards but am glad I found out about. They might be at a library check them out.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/redscarepod

No, you're not, if you were actually interested in a christian concept of the soul you would do five minutes of googling, find a good book, order it and read it. Not get in internet arguments.

This took me 30 seconds of googling to find a catholic perspective on the soul, it was very hard and something I'm sure you are incapable of doing, here you go:

>The glossary at the back of the U.S. version of the [Catechism of the Catholic Church] defines “soul” as follows:

>The spiritual principle of human beings. The soul is the subject of human consciousness and freedom; soul and body together form one unique human nature. Each human soul is individual and immortal, immediately created by God. The soul does not die with the body, from which it is separated by death, and with which it will be reunited in the final resurrection.

https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-exactly-is-a-soul

Here is a book on the soul by Aquinas that you'll never read:

https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Soul-Aquinas-P-QUAESTIONES/dp/0874622263/ref=asc_df_0874622263/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312741934517&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15143038897144877945&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9018949&hvtargid=pla-569284794886&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=64940825031&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312741934517&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15143038897144877945&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9018949&hvtargid=pla-569284794886

u/SoItShallBeWritten · 8 pointsr/redscarepod

Highly recommended if a bit of a slog: https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western-dp-0300245920/dp/0300245920/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Yes it is an actual mental retardation IMHO, but completely expected from a tyrannical left-brained mediated worldview that can't appreciate context, nuance, duality, shades of grey, or relation and only sees in terms of categories, abstractions, all-or-nothing, and the literal

u/ghostHardvvare · 3 pointsr/redscarepod

I'm working my way through this very, very, very slowly. The only thing harder than my dick is learning a 2nd language as an adult.