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> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?
by asu_thomas 3y ago
> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian
Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?
- gaulish 3y agoWhat makes a spokesperson lying “capitalism?” One can think of lying spokespersons like good ol’ Baghdad Bob operating outside of a business context.
- mistrial9 3y ago.. the person responding merged the thoughts ("the company spokesperson said A" + "screenshots show company doing B" ) + (the reason the company did that is $SYSTEM + the reason the spokesporson said that is $SYSTEM) this is actually a known problem in cognitive psych; the person writing did not sufficiently break up the parts. An incomplete thought chain or lazy thinking results in this kind of merged result all the time. Buddhist psychology for one, has a lot to say about the nature of this kind of lack of clarity in general.
- asu_thomas 3y agoNobody ascribed a cause to anything. My only point is that it's reality, not imagination. People just making shit up is also a known problem in cognitive psychology. Very interesting stuff.
- IggleSniggle 3y ago67% of cognitive psychology is made up on the spot! The rest is made up in other places.
- mistrial9 3y ago>> It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. > Nobody ascribed a cause to anything. .... those two statements contradict directly... followed by scatology..
- Sirizarry 3y agoI think you’re really misunderstanding the context in which the word dystopian is used here. It’s just a negative adjective. No one is saying this is imagination.
- hgsgm 3y agoThe College Board is a financial scam (https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/ https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/) but arguably its flaws aren't technically Capitalist. Facebook and TikTok are, though. There's no reason for a school test-taking website to partner with Facebook and TikTok accept because these companies are providing some service (of dubious value, like College Board itself!) to drive their own profit. https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/ https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/
- asu_thomas 3y agoThe College Board is a perfectly legal enterprise, and how could you know their reasons for how they do things? Besides, they are a "not-for-profit" organization so we know for a fact that they don't want profit.
- stale2002 3y agoBecause in their opinion, anything bad I'm the world can just be reduced to one problem. Their pet critique of economic philosophy.
- thfuran 3y agoWhy insist that everything is fine while the house burns down around you?
- asu_thomas 3y agoWho said anything is fine? It's both more evocative and more effective to recognize reality as reality than to insist that it's fantasy.
- LightHugger 3y agoDystopia does not mean fantasy
- IggleSniggle 3y agoAlthough one definition of dystopia is specifically about imaginary future states, this is not the only connotation for the word. I would hazard to say that most people would understand you perfectly if you said "we are living in a dystopia," without believing you were trying to say we are living in a fantasy land.
- firtoz 3y agoDystopian is not always imaginative, however most of the time people assume it is. It's just a negative adjective.
- airza 3y agodystopia /dɪsˈtəʊpɪə/ noun an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
- singleshot_ 3y agoGuess that must be an old definition from back before we lived in one?
- hiatus 3y agoImaginative != imagined
- firtoz 3y agofun fact, I was typing "imaginary" but got auto-corrected
- deadbunny 3y agoAre Dystopias only fictional?
- erellsworth 3y ago> Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary? Maybe because plain capitalism in regular reality is pretty dystopian. Nothing imaginary about it.
- karaterobot 3y agoDefinitely. I want to live in one of those non-capitalist countries, where they don't track people. The names of these countries escape me at the moment.
- dotnet00 3y agoIt's funny to try to accuse someone else of living in fantasy while pushing a fantastical notion of what capitalism is.