i was gonna write a blog post in response but really it’s just i think:
- you’re basically on the right track
- you should go one step further and drop the centrality of morality talk altogether
- there are a multitude of sources and forms of normativity and evaluation at our disposal, and
it’s more generative to reference them directly rather than cloud them in the language of traditional ethics
- if you’re in the mood to read, “Nietzsche and Morality” by Raymond Geuss is good ("Outside Ethics" the book is also obvi relevant, but that essay is a bit less indirect)
you can also listen to some shitta read it out loud if you prefer ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMm3...
he yaps abt nietzsche more than is strictly necessary for the point, but part of geuss' style is to "show not tell"
the world is currently bad, and creates individuals who have a distorted perception of happiness. what happiness they do have is conditioned by the world as it exists, which should give us reason to be skeptical/critical of this happiness
- there are different logical systems, so what counts as logical depends with your system already
- i don’t like rights at all, juridical or moral, regardless of species
while i’m not too big of a fan of the framing of brainwashing (among other reasons that it usually implies more deliberate intentionality and agency than i care for), it was more the notion of unconstrained thought that made me uncomfy
sure, it’s just that some of these are deeply embedded assumptions about what counts as proper logical/moral thought as such, so i wouldn’t expect someone who hasn’t heard of them before to reject them
but miss goyo is built different so…
every so often i open instagram just to see ppl from high school posting antisemitism, advertising the pyramid scheme they just joined, and getting married
Now it is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power’s limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most “private.”
DNI if you believe in:
- the law of excluded middle
- non-hypothetical imperatives
- human rights
- intuition as normatively informative
- non-stipulative definitions
- intermittently tolerated happiness that doesn’t bear the marks of its own particularity