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
- i enjoy the process of programming
- i enjoy the resulting functionality
- once produced, i don’t want to be associated with it at all. both in terms of maintenance responsibility and in terms of taking credit. it’s just something detached that exists