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It's a good "razor" to strip away rationalizations and sophistry used to defend perverse or failed systems and ideas. E.g. the "purpose" of fascism is nihilist
by api 2y ago
It's a good "razor" to strip away rationalizations and sophistry used to defend perverse or failed systems and ideas.
E.g. the "purpose" of fascism is nihilistic violence and the "purpose" of communism is rule by a bureaucratic elite that is somehow more equal than everyone else. All the sophistry is bullshit.
- scarecrowbob 2y agoI dunno, you start doing that to capitalism people get big mad fast. The "purpose" of capitalism is to "destroy the ecology of earth by being good at organizing stuff into metastasizing accumulation strategies"? People don't like that at all, because it's simply pretentious to reduce any system to however you choose to smugly describe "what it does".