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It’s interesting how the way that author you mentioned describes the attitudes and views of his parents and the upbringing he had when he was a young lad growin

It’s interesting how the way that author you mentioned describes the attitudes and views of his parents and the upbringing he had when he was a young lad growing up in Europe of the 1890’s. It’s surprisingly very similar to the attitudes in parents of the 1990’s America and the upbringing many of us who grew up in the 1990’s…. Was interesting. Especially the way it all shattered after world war 1. Hell the author fled Europe to escape the Nazis. I read in a history book that that author committed suicide in despair because he thought the Nazis would win. His memoirs of his life are filled with sadness and melancholy. The enormous optimism that his parents had for him in his upbringing during the 1890’s. When his parents and many of their generation believed the march of science would lead to a new century of reason and peace and progress….and then in his lifetime the world descended into a level of brutality and violence and horror that would have been unimaginable in centuries prior… Poignant stuff

eastbound 2y ago
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- cambalache 2y ago
  Any word on the current genocide being perpetrated by Israel?
  - eastbound 2y ago
    Yes. If you’re a small country with little army, don’t throw 7,000 rockets on a bigger country’s living neighborhoods between Jan 1st 2023 and Oct 7 2023. This is not Dresden here.
_ugfj 2y ago
> I read in a history book that that author committed suicide in despair because he thought the Nazis would win. [citation needed] heavily so. https://web.archive.org/web/20101014145959/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773116,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101014145959/http://www.time.c... > Friends in Brazil said he left a suicide note explaining that he was old, a man without a country, too weary to begin a new life.
narrator 2y ago
Dostoevsky really saw the gathering storm clouds, especially in his book, "The Possessed." He did a great job of criticizing the idle status seeking upper classes who were charmed and oblivious to the gathering power of radical ideologies like that of Pyotr Stepanovich and his gang of radicals in that book. James Lindsay has spent a lot of time talking about the Gnostic and Hermetic currents running through these disastrous revolts against liberal ideas that occurred throughout the 20th century.[1] It seems that the ancient Gnostic and Hermetic cult ideologies and their derivatives, imported into the modern world by Marx, Hegel and Rousseau are exploiters of many unfixed security vulnerabilities in the human psyche, especially in large groups, that are used to regularly create all sorts of mayhem, and pointless civilizational self-destruction by promising easy societal transformation in any way imaginable and a forthcoming great vague unspecified utopia where the details of how it actually would work are considered unimportant. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_w2-8snWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_w2-8snWk
- b800h 2y ago
  To save me watching the video, can you articulate why you believe that Marx was influenced by Gnosticism and Hermeticism? Is this the Popperian "Plato was an enemy of open society"?
  - narrator 2y ago
    Gnosticism has the pattern that there is a demiurge that created this world as a prison. This is the capitalist economy. Gnosticism says that those initiated into secret knowledge will become of aware of the real nature of the world and seek to wake everyone else up. This is the idea of the revolution fixing all problems and bringing about the great communist utopia by transferring all capital ownership to the state. Marx doesn't say a whole lot about how the Utopia would actually operate, those were details Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky were figuring out in Vienna. Hermeticism, specifically the emerald tablet, says that we can make things become believable by just willing them with our minds. Those who believe the things should be treated preferentially, and those who don't should be persecuted because they stand in the way of the implementation of those things. This applies to Marx's beliefs in the labor theory of value among other totally non-empirically backed beliefs being treated as ideological indisputable truth.
gopher_space 2y ago
To the person who had a comment removed: The reason we don't talk like that is because it turned out to encourage wholesale murder. It's not that you're "wrong", it's that you're not singling out the responsible individuals when you could just do that. It comes across as intentionally painting with too broad a brush.
- mrguyorama 2y ago
  No they are absolutely wrong. Painting the kinda normal violence of a city with richish criminals as a parallel to the beginning of a State sanctioned erasing of an ethnicity from their boarders is delusion. The case they reference is literally a gang banger who shot a cop. France is not experiencing a genocide FFS "We don't talk like that" because being that absurdly catastrophizing, that disingenuous about a situation, is called being a liar. Imagine calling Al Capone's violence a genocide.
  - gopher_space 2y ago
    I'm trying to convince, not vent.

eastbound 2y ago

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cambalache 2y ago
Any word on the current genocide being perpetrated by Israel?
- eastbound 2y ago
  Yes. If you’re a small country with little army, don’t throw 7,000 rockets on a bigger country’s living neighborhoods between Jan 1st 2023 and Oct 7 2023. This is not Dresden here.

_ugfj 2y ago

> I read in a history book that that author committed suicide in despair because he thought the Nazis would win. [citation needed] heavily so. https://web.archive.org/web/20101014145959/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773116,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101014145959/http://www.time.c... > Friends in Brazil said he left a suicide note explaining that he was old, a man without a country, too weary to begin a new life.

narrator 2y ago

Dostoevsky really saw the gathering storm clouds, especially in his book, "The Possessed." He did a great job of criticizing the idle status seeking upper classes who were charmed and oblivious to the gathering power of radical ideologies like that of Pyotr Stepanovich and his gang of radicals in that book. James Lindsay has spent a lot of time talking about the Gnostic and Hermetic currents running through these disastrous revolts against liberal ideas that occurred throughout the 20th century.[1] It seems that the ancient Gnostic and Hermetic cult ideologies and their derivatives, imported into the modern world by Marx, Hegel and Rousseau are exploiters of many unfixed security vulnerabilities in the human psyche, especially in large groups, that are used to regularly create all sorts of mayhem, and pointless civilizational self-destruction by promising easy societal transformation in any way imaginable and a forthcoming great vague unspecified utopia where the details of how it actually would work are considered unimportant. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_w2-8snWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_w2-8snWk

b800h 2y ago
To save me watching the video, can you articulate why you believe that Marx was influenced by Gnosticism and Hermeticism? Is this the Popperian "Plato was an enemy of open society"?
- narrator 2y ago
  Gnosticism has the pattern that there is a demiurge that created this world as a prison. This is the capitalist economy. Gnosticism says that those initiated into secret knowledge will become of aware of the real nature of the world and seek to wake everyone else up. This is the idea of the revolution fixing all problems and bringing about the great communist utopia by transferring all capital ownership to the state. Marx doesn't say a whole lot about how the Utopia would actually operate, those were details Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky were figuring out in Vienna. Hermeticism, specifically the emerald tablet, says that we can make things become believable by just willing them with our minds. Those who believe the things should be treated preferentially, and those who don't should be persecuted because they stand in the way of the implementation of those things. This applies to Marx's beliefs in the labor theory of value among other totally non-empirically backed beliefs being treated as ideological indisputable truth.

gopher_space 2y ago

To the person who had a comment removed: The reason we don't talk like that is because it turned out to encourage wholesale murder. It's not that you're "wrong", it's that you're not singling out the responsible individuals when you could just do that. It comes across as intentionally painting with too broad a brush.

mrguyorama 2y ago
No they are absolutely wrong. Painting the kinda normal violence of a city with richish criminals as a parallel to the beginning of a State sanctioned erasing of an ethnicity from their boarders is delusion. The case they reference is literally a gang banger who shot a cop. France is not experiencing a genocide FFS "We don't talk like that" because being that absurdly catastrophizing, that disingenuous about a situation, is called being a liar. Imagine calling Al Capone's violence a genocide.
- gopher_space 2y ago
  I'm trying to convince, not vent.