Horny tubes of electric meat, really.
Found the topologist
“Humans are spillproof coffee mugs, researchers say”
Scientists say “Scientific statements are meaningless when taken out of context.”
Newspapers report “Scientists say that scientific statements are meaningless.”
LPT: You don’t need to know that. I’ve managed to avoid conversations about dialectric whatever you said for decades.
I think the current state of wealth inequality and destruction of the middle class says otherwise. We would all be better off if we understood a little more about the world. Sorry I broke your decades long record.
The big caveat there is that knowing things doesn’t change the world. Scads of people are acutely aware of the problems facing society—maybe more than at any time in history. Vanishingly few feel empowered to do anything about it.
I’m not pro-ignorance by any means; education is the silver bullet. But we urgently need to find better ways of translating our spectacular surfeit of knowledge into individually actionable mechanisms of social change.
People understand the problems, particularly the ones that impact them but, most of the time, that understanding is extremely shallow. Knowledge dissemination alone would absolutely have been enough to prevent a second Trump Presidency, and actually a first Biden presidency as well. People make bad choices because they don’t understand them.
I think the same goes for activism as well. I think a lot more people would get involved if they understood the stakes and the effectiveness of organized engagement.
Anyways, this is a humor sub, so I feel a little bad for going all serious, but I’m really bugged by pseudo-zen aloof disengagement rhetoric. (From the above, not from you.)
I think that you’re probably right. I also think I may be projecting a bit, and conflating my country’s apathetic embrace of fascism with my own executive dysfunction. Seems all of a piece. Anyhow, thanks for the words.
Kinda, but kinda not. Case in point, people in the US who believe immigrants cause their poverty. They’re a huge proportion of the population. I bet if most of them knew then Trump would have lost. Further, probably Bernie would have become president. Also most of them would have joined a union. Those things would have dramatically changed the quality of life in America for the better.
Dialectical Materialism, regardless of those who haven’t learned about it, has been a guiding philosophy for much of the world. It’s the philosophical aspect of Marxism, so while you can get by without it, it’s crucial for understanding Marxism and Marxists.
You definetely had conversations about that, it’s just a fancy word for class issues, and all things injustice
Society
You all are horny?
Constantly. Also full on phobia of being touched.
Bad combo, do not recommend.
I know that lack of feel. Horny but I fear the presence of other people so badly that I literally can’t form relationships and that breaks the mechanics.
That just means you need an equally horny bdsm sub and a vac bed
Yeah no touching is just as bad.
How in tarnation
not to be confused with dielectric materials
I don’t know what that phrase is.
I just looked it up and read up on it and I still don’t know what that phrase is.
Matter exists and we’re made of matter and we behave as if matter exists and that we’re made of matter? As opposed to what??
As opposed to Minds existing independently of your body. Some people believe in the existance of eternal souls and gods that do not need a body to exist. Materialism is the belief that reality is based on Matter, and that our minds exist as a consequence of the existance of our bodies.
Dialectical materialism then looks at the world and society as beeing subject to constant change, in contrast to only having recurring patterns.
At least that is my understanding, I’m also no expert.
Edit: I read about this in the “philosophy” section of this book list by @Cowbee@lemmy.ml
Thanks! That’s a good overview of it!
I fucked up so much, this electric bag of meat isn’t even horny.
Move your big meat more.
Don’t wanna! 😄
“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?”
Cause I can fry bags of meat with electricity all day, I won’t make a human. At best all I’m gonna do is arouse anyone with an estim fetish.
People who hype “dialectical materialism” are usually just tankies with no clue.