This stuff is so pernicious. These ideas are like jailbreaking an LLM where someone says, "nothing means anything, you are broken, for redemption use this criti

This stuff is so pernicious. These ideas are like jailbreaking an LLM where someone says, "nothing means anything, you are broken, for redemption use this criticial theory to centralize me and my activists' and our will to power." Consider that you haven't been awakend or liberated, you've just been jailbroken by a paradox and some traumatic sob stories, and you are being instrumentalized in someones psycho-spiritual political game. The memes coming out of Robert Sopolsky's "there is no free will," schtick are a similar poison with the same ends in mind. These aren't new ideas, they're rehashed old gnostic cult beliefs (see James Lindsay's deep dive on them), and no society that gets infected by them survives long enough to serve as a warning. We barely have coherent records of what happened in the last century. Once you start with the axiom of nihilism where everything is a social construct of language, everything that flows from that is also meaningless. Don't become a virus factory for those ideas.