The Funky Academic

  • StrayCatFrump@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    That last line in the video. That’s exactly what happens when they finally realize you caught them in the racist/revisionist shit. They go on the attack with something absolutely inane.

      • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        We all do at times. I struggle to listen. Listen to the people around you, they say more than just words. Usually when people are angry, it’s because something else is bothering them, but they can’t recognize or communicate it.

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          1 year ago

          True. We all share the same vulnerability, but I think it is one remarkably germane to the structural criticisms of the “white liberal”.

          Notice Pryor’s clever tactics for exposing Fuldheim’s indifference to any contribution that may validate the substantive or lived experiences of anyone marginalized.

          (Pryor of course is Black American, and also was raised in abject poverty.)

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            1 year ago

            Just found this guy last night. He has some great insights you might enjoy. I’m trying to understand liberal psychology, ie, harm reduction and maintaining the status quo. Any starting points you can think of that might help me would be appreciated.

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              Liberal psychology is based on a collective delusion that alienates an ideal, presented as universal, from any immediate experience, such that all meaningful experience by an individual alienates the individual from the rest of society, who perceives only the ideal.

              Thus, all unity from shared experience is annihilated by servility to the abstract.

              • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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                1 year ago

                Thanks. I think this was a theme in Adam Curtis’s Century of Self, although it’s not very explicit.

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                  1 year ago

                  Marx and Durkheim have laid the groundwork for psychological transformations under liberal society.

                  Postmodernist authors have tried to address the issues more comprehensively, to varying degrees of coherence and reliability.

                  The Spectacle of the Situationists, and capitalist realism of Mark Fisher, interrogate the extreme alienation of postmodernity.

                  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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                    1 year ago

                    One day I’ll read Capitalist Realism, I promise. I’ve watched some of his lectures. Sometimes I understand him, other times I feel lost.

          • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            I can’t take credit. My son kept calling me boomer. I asked him what my username should be, this was his answer.