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What makes you afraid?
by syndicatedjelly 3y ago
What makes you afraid?
- coldtea 3y agoSome people's willingness to eat any shit the food instrustry puts out, proudly even, and their inability to appreciate wholesome foods to save their lives. You know, the kind of things that make the average Italian think of the US as a dietary backwater. I can understand laughing at the face of cancer by doing something enjoyable like smoking and drinking (even approve it). But replacing real food with bland synthetic BS just to increase food industry profits? Since you forego of arugments and any personal opinion and went for pop psychology, let me have a jab at it too: I guess a lot of people are more afraid not to look modern enough, that they will be called out as Luddites if they eat a real steak instead of Soylent Green?
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoWhat pop psychology did I offer that offended you?
- coldtea 3y agoIt's not like your comment had some deep lengthy arguments, so wouldn't it be obvious?
- klyrs 3y agoWith only four words to choose from, I would guess that calling them "afraid" was triggering somehow.
- coldtea 3y agoIt was either a common weaselly way to imply "anybody opposite these must have some irrational fear", or a very unfortunate choice of phrasing.
- klyrs 3y agoI get that, but which of those appeals to pop psychology (besides my deliberately ironic reach for "triggering")
- coldtea 3y ago>but which of those appeals to pop psychology It doesn't appeal to, it is an attempt to use pop psychology (the notion of resistance to X owing to fear). Hardly better than the "who hurt you?" bro retort.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoIn retrospect, I now realize it was a poor choice of words.