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You may think your cynicism displays wisdom, but it actually just reveals your own passivity and subservience to those who would dominate and rob you of your fu

You may think your cynicism displays wisdom, but it actually just reveals your own passivity and subservience to those who would dominate and rob you of your future.

gr_norm 2mo ago
I've noticed this sort of ideology taking over social media, probably because it selects for firing off vapid dunks over sincere engagement with the complexities of the world. I fear it's destroying our ability to think for ourselves, here to the benefit of the ruling class for whom science holds inconvenient truths.
- GPerson 2mo ago
  The most corrupt people of all time are running the show and you’re criticizing the guy who’s cynical about it?
  - clipsy 2mo ago
    Why aren't you? If you believe that the people "running the show" are the most corrupt of all time (I think that's a stretch, though they're certainly the most corrupt in my lifetime), then it seems like you should be quite critical of a person describing it as "business as usual."
    - GPerson 2mo ago
      They’re obviously the most corrupt of all time just look at trump selling his tweets for poly market gamblers. But I did misunderstand you’re right.
  - kennywinker 2mo ago
    Was he being cynical about the current admin, or about the status quo? Because i think it might be a schrodinger’s snark
burnt-resistor 2mo ago
I'd tend to agree. And we should encourage other fellow non-super-rich people to join our cause rather than casting out those who disagree or we do our common enemies' work of becoming divided-and-conquered. The above, I meant it as increase in degrees towards these objectives explicitly rather than presuming the existing system were perfect or neutral. IIRC, institutional affiliation lends a degree of credibility but grant writing effectiveness and form filling ability are prerequisites to increasing the probability of winning grant awards. I don't know how a large disbursement organization could improve on fairness in selection without requiring documentation and convincing proposals in a format convenient for efficient, fair review. Weakening this process would encourage an appearance of arbitrariness and favoritism, if not actually. I don't believe for a second that DOGE or similar non-expert "experts" can "improve" anything they touch when meaningful improvement requires domain expertise, careful assessment, and usually stakeholder buy-in. At a high level, it appears the current US regime is incrementally remolding and reverting its society, industry, academia, and institutions from more egalitarian-based to more feudal/prerogative-based.
throwawaypath 2mo ago
>You may think your cynicism displays wisdom It doesn't take much (any?) wisdom to correctly identify the system being torn down and the proposed replacement are two peas in an identitarian orthodoxy pod. >but it actually just reveals your own passivity and subservience to those who would dominate and rob you of your future. Cheering on the destruction of the perversion of science, specifically those who have been dominating and robbing science and all scientists of their future for over a decade is anything but "passive" and "subservient." Stop projecting about passivity and subservience, not everyone in science is as effeminate and ideologically captured as you.

You may think your cynicism displays wisdom, but it actually just reveals your own passivity and subservience to those who would dominate and rob you of your future.

gr_norm 2mo ago

I've noticed this sort of ideology taking over social media, probably because it selects for firing off vapid dunks over sincere engagement with the complexities of the world. I fear it's destroying our ability to think for ourselves, here to the benefit of the ruling class for whom science holds inconvenient truths.

GPerson 2mo ago
The most corrupt people of all time are running the show and you’re criticizing the guy who’s cynical about it?
- clipsy 2mo ago
  Why aren't you? If you believe that the people "running the show" are the most corrupt of all time (I think that's a stretch, though they're certainly the most corrupt in my lifetime), then it seems like you should be quite critical of a person describing it as "business as usual."
  - GPerson 2mo ago
    They’re obviously the most corrupt of all time just look at trump selling his tweets for poly market gamblers. But I did misunderstand you’re right.
- kennywinker 2mo ago
  Was he being cynical about the current admin, or about the status quo? Because i think it might be a schrodinger’s snark

burnt-resistor 2mo ago

I'd tend to agree. And we should encourage other fellow non-super-rich people to join our cause rather than casting out those who disagree or we do our common enemies' work of becoming divided-and-conquered. The above, I meant it as increase in degrees towards these objectives explicitly rather than presuming the existing system were perfect or neutral. IIRC, institutional affiliation lends a degree of credibility but grant writing effectiveness and form filling ability are prerequisites to increasing the probability of winning grant awards. I don't know how a large disbursement organization could improve on fairness in selection without requiring documentation and convincing proposals in a format convenient for efficient, fair review. Weakening this process would encourage an appearance of arbitrariness and favoritism, if not actually. I don't believe for a second that DOGE or similar non-expert "experts" can "improve" anything they touch when meaningful improvement requires domain expertise, careful assessment, and usually stakeholder buy-in. At a high level, it appears the current US regime is incrementally remolding and reverting its society, industry, academia, and institutions from more egalitarian-based to more feudal/prerogative-based.

throwawaypath 2mo ago

>You may think your cynicism displays wisdom It doesn't take much (any?) wisdom to correctly identify the system being torn down and the proposed replacement are two peas in an identitarian orthodoxy pod. >but it actually just reveals your own passivity and subservience to those who would dominate and rob you of your future. Cheering on the destruction of the perversion of science, specifically those who have been dominating and robbing science and all scientists of their future for over a decade is anything but "passive" and "subservient." Stop projecting about passivity and subservience, not everyone in science is as effeminate and ideologically captured as you.