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So, your ability to have food every day depends on ads. You don't need mental gymnastics to justify surviving in a capitalist world using ads, it's okay, every

by _jplc 5y ago

So, your ability to have food every day depends on ads. You don't need mental gymnastics to justify surviving in a capitalist world using ads, it's okay, everyone understands it.

b3lvedere 5y ago
Indeed. And i don't care if they show ads or not. I will try to block it as much as possible, because i still hate watching those things.
tupac_speedrap 5y ago
Indeed. Why do people rationalise this stuff in such an odd way? Attention isn't currency and advertising isn't a foreign exchange. They mention about having a new "mental model" so mental gymnastics is probably an appropriate term in this case.
- zardo 5y ago
  Start constructing your views from a foundation of, "I'm a good person. The things I do are good."
  - NateEag 5y ago
    One of the things traditional Christianity has going for it is that any adherent is supposed to accept, at core, that they are not an inherently good person. Doesn't mean everything you do is automatically terrible, but in many Christians it does encourage self-reflection and self-awareness, because of the knowledge that any given impulse you have may actually be a selfish one that's terrible for other people. ...granted, it doesn't always work that way in conservative US evangelicalism. Even there it does sometimes, though. /rabbittrail
    - hutzlibu 5y ago
      Ah well, the people who burned at the stake, only burned, because the inquisitors wanted to save their soul, so doing something good to them.
      - NateEag 5y ago
        The Inquisition was a truly horrible desecration against many unfortunate human beings. What I know of the Gospels makes me believe the Inquisitors were in no sense followers of Christ. (Of course, the Inquisition has nothing to do with the point I was making, but that point was itself a rabbit trail, so I suppose turnabout is fair play.)

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So, your ability to have food every day depends on ads. You don't need mental gymnastics to justify surviving in a capitalist world using ads, it's okay, every

by _jplc 5y ago

So, your ability to have food every day depends on ads. You don't need mental gymnastics to justify surviving in a capitalist world using ads, it's okay, everyone understands it.

b3lvedere 5y ago
Indeed. And i don't care if they show ads or not. I will try to block it as much as possible, because i still hate watching those things.
tupac_speedrap 5y ago
Indeed. Why do people rationalise this stuff in such an odd way? Attention isn't currency and advertising isn't a foreign exchange. They mention about having a new "mental model" so mental gymnastics is probably an appropriate term in this case.
- zardo 5y ago
  Start constructing your views from a foundation of, "I'm a good person. The things I do are good."
  - NateEag 5y ago
    One of the things traditional Christianity has going for it is that any adherent is supposed to accept, at core, that they are not an inherently good person. Doesn't mean everything you do is automatically terrible, but in many Christians it does encourage self-reflection and self-awareness, because of the knowledge that any given impulse you have may actually be a selfish one that's terrible for other people. ...granted, it doesn't always work that way in conservative US evangelicalism. Even there it does sometimes, though. /rabbittrail
    - hutzlibu 5y ago
      Ah well, the people who burned at the stake, only burned, because the inquisitors wanted to save their soul, so doing something good to them.
      - NateEag 5y ago
        The Inquisition was a truly horrible desecration against many unfortunate human beings. What I know of the Gospels makes me believe the Inquisitors were in no sense followers of Christ. (Of course, the Inquisition has nothing to do with the point I was making, but that point was itself a rabbit trail, so I suppose turnabout is fair play.)