in this context, normie means roughly “someone who earnestly and uncritically believes popular cultural narratives”. at root it’s an epistemic vice of laziness and lack of wisdom in discernment.
at times they might be narrowly pragmatically useful (ex. 19thC “iron law of wages” socialists), but mostly they’re just a hindrance and an obstacle, especially in the long run.
if it makes you feel any better i don’t think of them as a real person when they’re doing this. it’s just a mechanical process of attempted memetic spread. it’s not volitional, they’re just a sociological automataton. playing the victim is meta rn and it’s cool and edgy to “punch up” incoherently.
what a luxury it was to be permitted innocent methods of fighting depression; the last vestiges of innocent ascetic indulgence now comes in the form of occasionally slicing my flesh open.
a demand for the deadening of pain through emotion: the object is to deaden a racking, insidious, nearly unbearable pain by a more violent emotion of any kind whatsoever, for the time being to drive it out of the consciousness - for this purpose an emotion is needed, as wild an emotion as possible.
Anyone who, in his intercourse with human beings, does not, at one time or another, shimmer with all the colours of distress—green and gray with disgust, surfeit, sympathy, gloom, and loneliness—is certainly not a man of higher taste.
I think romanticizing is not always that bad. It helps to do it sometimes when you're dealing with a repressed memory. I think it is called an advantaged delusion? Sometimes, that's the only way I can remember parts of me l don't want to remember, so that I can lay her to rest and heal.
it makes sense that market anarchists typically just reduce themselves to sniveling moralists at the end of the day
they want to prescribe a change in the superstructure without a clue why it’s developed that way, and the only explanation is Evil and Vice
if copyright were abolished then of course you’d be correct that imposing any limitation would be asinine.
in the same way that if capitalism were abolished one could no longer be a class traitor, because there would be no class to betray.
we’re not starting from a blank slate.
class interest doesn’t exist if i don’t look at it
anarchism is when i scab at the picket line
collective action is a spook
genuinely don’t know what you mean by this