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ted (not lasso)
@ted
i asked this on insta (which is asking for trouble) and will ask here: why is the oppressed/oppressor framework used so commonly these days and how is it helpful to advancing society? under this framework, what happens when the oppressed is no longer oppressed? it must become the oppressor; there is no other option.
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Jackson 🎩🍖
@jacks0n
Starting to believe it’s a downsampled secular evolution of Christianity - idolisation of the victim, original sin, repentance, confession Like all ideologies, it’s a simplification to replace thinking. First order models spread rapidly Could also be pure tribal signalling. People need a framework to know good
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Eric Platon
@ic
Thinking is definitely costly biologically, so understandable that we tend to think less by searching for fast thought patterns. And all that formally for literal survival.
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Eric Platon
@ic
But now, as thinking seems often locked into infinite loops over SNS threads and cat images, embedded for our survival in predictable urban environments, no time beyond Manichaeanism.
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Eric Platon
@ic
One of the reason why reactions like “oh it is difficult to take side on this one” are important signal to react on. It usually means there is “more to it in that one”, and only true citizens are likely to dig.
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