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as in, we’re humans yea, and we do mean things to animal guys, yea. vicious circularity in justification real likely. but like there’s not a lot to really glean from that, because it’s not just likely or suspect there’s just no alternative. idk maybe paulo will prove me wrong, i imagine ill end up
re-reading rossi too now that i have some more time apart, but im just really not inspired by this methodology
this is what i kinda meant here. epistemic rad realism is too flat and one-sided in service of remaining on solid analytical footing, and it suffers for it
idk ideology in this sense is just way less interesting because it's just the powerful deluding themselves
"animals, unlike humans, are unable to contest speciesist and anthropocentrist legitimation stores, not because they are in the lower rungs of the social order, but because they lack the relevant contestatory capacities. their disempowerment, then, is not enforced but constitutive." 🤨
speak more on that bro because uh constitutive of what. this is why i was hella sussed out by "for obvious reasons" above, like idk chief maybe lay that out because i don't trust you lol
this is fucking WEIRD dude
enforced and constiutive are such crude and not at all exhaustive ways of getting any understanding of power. how am i supposed to trust you with ideology critique when this is the best you got. "disempowered" is such a narrow starting place
"lacks the relevant psychological (cognitive and metacognitive) capacities required to contest legitimation stories"
i lowkey think ur a fascist
but beyond that this whole framing of like legitimation stories is all shit from the start I HATE YOU BERNARD WILLIAMS
i wish you were at least accidentally whimsical with him like the other guys, you leave it all implicit and its so ugly.
just like, imagine showing this paper to adorno and being like hey look i pointed out "bias", did i do a good ideology critique