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The Authoritarian Society We Live In

Violation of autonomy/manipulated "consent"

Accusations/punishments under false pretenses

Treated unfairly/biased

Deprived of personal property

Acts of violence and threats used for control

Compensated unfairly if at all for work

Subject to repeated abuse and injustice

Marked under false pretenses leading to persistent oppression

Mockery of pain and suffering

Public shaming under false pretenses

Interference with public records, opportunity

Narratives created to victim blame and silence

Placed intentionally in systems designed to further oppression

Aggressive doubt, entitled questioning and ultimatum-based demands when justified complaints are given

Dehumanization, stereotyping and marking in records used to draw suspicion, doubt and uncertainty

Health and justice systems built from the ground up to protect the authoritarian systems and silence victims

Social promotion of bias, fear, uncertainty, doubt and hostility by the system via bad-faith criteria furthered by publications, media coverage, etc

Promotion of Social Dominance Orientation based narratives

Various series of fallacy/bias-stacking used to justify the above; bad-faith mislogic is lauded over critical thinking and evidence based reasoning

Justice systems are punitive instead of corrective

Monetary gains and social acceptance determine level of justice, care, etc

#authoritarianism #mental health #sociology #society #human rights #social justice

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In Defense Of "Anti-Work"

Many people attempt to justify Neo-Calvinist Work Ethic, which is a self-contradicting piece of pseudo-religious dogma stating that all people must work for religious purposes, but not equally. The philosophy also pushes the belief that the wealthy inherited the earth and became wealthy only by way of innate virtue and should only perform unburdened laborless management and collect the majority of the wealth produced by others, and that the poor must perform hard labor and hand the money up the societal ladder to save their souls.

Early Calvinist Work Ethic dogma was used as a justification for serfdom and slavery from the late 1500s (AD) till today. Neo-Calvinist ideology forms much backbone for much of gatekeeping in Western society; as it is related to System Justification, victim-blaming and "societal weeding".

Contrary to current Western common belief, most of the world didn't belive in anything even remotely close to this concept until fairly recently. While serfdom and slavery had existed in pockets and within waxing and waning empires (with various restructuring of labor beliefs and practices), it wasn't part of a universal belief that humans were required to access the resources of the world they were born on solely through repetitious labor associated with pyramid'esque-scheme systems.

In fact the "work week" wasn't invented until the 1800s and the idea of standardization of Brute Capitalism didn't exist until the 1950s (which lead to economic downfalls and crime waves during the 1960s and 1970s).

People often assume that the majority of the world's idea of work and taxes has been standardized for millennia, and pretty much look the same across all of history, but this is simply not true.

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Side note: The anti-work isn't a movement in opposition to task completion, but in opposition to fallacies associated with ideologies that claim human beings should naturally be treated as machines used for repetitious labor in order to support classist structures and to restrict social and economic mobility.

The current systems aren't about maximizing everyone's potential, nor about focusing on justice and accuracy.

It's simply about creating and maintaining a series of networked exploitation-focused pyramid schemes. This is ensured mostly by way of early indoctrination, and encouraged via peer pressure (pride, shame, etc).

#antiwork #history #world history #capitalism #communism #socialism #economics #epistemology #slavery #serfdom #money #living #sociology #social ecology #humanism #social mobility #economic mobility

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Controversial Take On: Social Services

Social Services is just about maintaining the status quo at a quieter volume.

There is no push for higher education, careers, justice or a goal of eventual complete independent seamless integration. Their goal is to warehouse people in SROs and shelters and sell them in a circle to other agencies and clinics to create some form of slavery based on collecting people as statistics and perpetual patients and trading them for cash prizes.

To turn the poor into a commodity that they can look down upon to feel superior; to justify their position of power, and to pat themselves on the back for breaking people's legs and then offering them a bed to wail in.

They blur the line between voluntary and compulsory by way of ignoring their how their system uses bureaucracy to gatekeep and apply force.

When all else fails in attempts to dominate and control the flow of resources, they resort to malicious compliance, groupthink, mindguard and DARVO.

Because they have declared themselves arbitors and saviors, society has laid all easy access to resources at their feet; they become the discretionary gatekeepers of life and death, with zero checks and balances that grant any power to the clients and patients involved.

People comply because there are no other lower-hill options.

This is by design.

#sociology #social work #homelessness #ethics #society #societal development #working #education #justice #social justice #injustice #cultural hegemony #poverty #classism #social classes

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Reading List

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Manufacture of Consent by Noam Chomsky The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper In Search of a Better World by Karl Popper Conjecture and Refutation by Karl Popper The Way of Zen by Alan Watts Think on These Things by Jidhu Krishnamurti Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by Buckminster Fuller The Courage of Truth by Michel Foucault The Rebel by Albert Camus Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre

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Types of Ethics:

Utilitarian Ethics - What seems best for the end goal (Counter: Machiavellian)

Dogmatic Ethics - What seems best by book/religion (Counter: Blind obediance)

Consquential Ethics - What seems best to avoid predictable problems (Counter: Universal Consequences)

Deontological Ethics - What seems best based on reasoning (Counter: Reasoning can be flawed)

Contractual Ethics - What seems best based on contractual adherence (Counter: Contracts can be unethical)

Kantian Ethics - What seems best based on Personalized Deontological Ethics (Counter: Arguments against selfishness)

Natural Law Ethics - What seems best based on intuition (Counter: Intuition can be flawed)

Naturalism Ethics - What seems best to maintain the status quo (Counter: Machiavellian)

Pluralism Ethics - The mixing of two or more ethical systems (Counter: Fallacy stacking; conflict avoidance camouflage as ethics)

Isonomiacratic Ethics - Maintaining equal rights and access but not controlling all outcomes (Counter: A form of restricted ["balanced"] Pluralism; Utilitarian, Consequential, Contractual and Deontological)

#ethics #philosophy #psychology #sociology #economics #morals

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The Lies Of Hustle Culture:

That Social Dominance Orientation isn't steeped in logical fallacies and cognitive biases

That Cultural Hegemony is beneficial to workers and is inherently honest

That working well guarantees equal or better benefits when compared to not working (nature; not welfare)

Some people are natural workaholics (see: the psychology of narcissistic attention seeking and anxiety disorders)

The 40 hour work week is natural, has been a normative behavioral staple for a millennia, and is common across cultures

That Fordism and Pullman Economics have been around forever

That society and businesses abide by meritocratic and open equal access principles

That the current Fordism-based system isn't detrimental to the Environment and Social Environment

That work ethic determines validation of personal ethics, beliefs or special rights

That corruption in the workplace, the government employment offices, and courts doesn't exist.

That there are no significant unjustifiable health risks tied to the current work culture

That compensation and taxes are based on rational systems and that irrational systems don't eventually cause market issues

#economics #economy #social ecology #fordism #pullman economics #money #class #classism #class warfare #equal oppertunity #biases #compensation #work #workplace #enviornment #enviormentalism #cultural hegemony #hustle culture #government #social work #psychology #sociology #psychiatry #social dominance #system justification #health #economics of health #healthcare

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If that's your view of Letterkenny, I'd love to read your views about any other North American sitcoms since 2010

I don't recall any other modern sitcoms promoting the hegemonic backsliding that Letterkenny has, but many of them have their own morosophist issues.

The difference is that I don't see people taking other sitcoms preaching so seriously. This show and its sister program try very hard to be pieces of hegemonic propaganda.

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Also its spelled 'doctrine', not 'doctorine'

Thanks. I wrote this on my phone while hanging upside down in my hammock at 3am with the flu.

If you have any criticisms of substance I'd like to hear them.

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Misunderstanding "Oppression" As "Innate Weakness"

It is inaccurate to label "oppression" explicitly as "innately vulnerable"; rather it would be more objectively accurate to label oppression as "disproportionately (socially) unsupported" or "systematically persecuted."

When discussing mob action, especially in a sociological sense, there is a major illogical leap that many people (including those working in various systems) make.

When the minority's innate traits are compared to those of the majority on an individual level, the minority is not found to be more "vulnerable" or "weak" in regards to their character traits, reactivity or capability when the playing field is leveled. Their social mobility and related progress are restricted by made-up mob action structures.

The idea of labeling people and groups as "weak" or "vulnerable" is a misnomer originating in bias.

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Progressive Hegemony Paradox:

The paradoxical belief that a society can be both progressive and hegemonically biased at the same time.

Related to morosphism; Where one still uses poor/biased logic and methodology despite years of higher education demonstrating the pitfalls of such mislogic.

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My Problem With Letterkenny

The Canadian comedy program Letterkenny is used by the series creator Jared Keeso to push his philosophy of tough love and hard work as a solution to most of life's problems.

When it's actors aren't cracking wise engaging in dehumanizing slights in order to promote an uncritical view of toughening one's social reserve and emotional susceptibility, they're often threatening to engage in various forms of violence or social pressure to achieve their goals.

The "Philosophy" of the show thus far:

Usage of classist jokes

Usage of condescending jokes

Social promoting of violence as a way of problem solving

Social promotion of logical fallacies

Social promotion of Fordism and the Cult of Overwork

Social promotion of groupthink

Social promotion of cultural hegemony

Social promotion of rationalization over reason

Social promotion of othering and dehumanization

Social promotion of the fundamental attribution error

Social promotion of slippery slope propaganda

While the series creator has acknowledged it's not a "nice show", he and his crew have been hard at work marketing it as a show about positive masculinity, tough love and work ethic.

If anything, the show's constant use of fallacious reasoning (the banter of which accounts for the majority of the runtime) is used as form of rallying cry to do away with reason and compromise, and to instead call for throwback to scientifically disproven and deconstructed conservative social movements whose adherents are slowly dying off.

The show isn't satirizing this form of ignorant and barbaric conservativism; it isn't lampooning the use of violence or the Cult of Overwork. This isn't Archie Bunker levels of conservativism, which had only brought up regressive views in order to demonstrate their absurdity. This is a show that actively promotes sociopathic behavior as a social good (as long as groupthink is involved), as a demonstration of strength, instead of acknowledging the shortcomings of self-serving, biased antisocial behavior and the dangers of never being able to interpret such actions and thought processes as not only erroneous but dangerous.

It ceases to be funny the second autism jokes are used as tools of social dominance; it dies as a platform of preaching anything the moment it espouses Fordist views without an understanding of the current academic and medical criticisms of the current workforce systems that have caused inexcusable harm to billions. The fetishization of overwork and teleological expectations has been covered in every major psychology and sociology course in Universities across the globe since the topic was broached by Hansa Mehta's public essays on the topic post WWII.

It's primary classification as a comedic series is mostly tied to the sophomoric and dimwitted barbs the cast lob at each other, along with the peppering-in of "discomfort/awkward topic humor". The threats and insults unfortunately come off as a desperate attempt to appeal to the lowest impulses of humankind; to promote the belief that one can demonstrate their supposed superiority to others by engaging in the combative slandering and dehumanization of others.

Classic Social Dominance Orientation.

While the series has gained misguided social praise for it's late-to-the-party discussions on gender, sex and various other topics, it immediately betrays them in not so subtle attempts at juvenile humor moments afterward. Not as a point to demonstrate any satire of a lack of understanding on the behalf of the characters, but due to the show's creator and staff lacking any self-awareness that they have no idea what they were earlier trying to shoe-horn in to make them appear socially conscientious.

The show's creator desperately wants to appear enlightened and non-serious, yet it is backwards in it's use of othering and mislogic.

The irony isn't intentional.

It's just a bad show.

#letterkenny #letterkenny problems #jared keeso #canada #canadian television

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"Discipline" In Schools Systems

"Routine discipline"; How about we stop treating people so horribly, as the current system strips people of their autonomy and consent while using coercion in the form of threats and intimidation. That's your so-called "discipline"; the fundamental undermining of human rights, without any justification.

People are not property, and we should not be using any coercion or punishment systems against non-violent non-conformity. No compromise, as no amount of ego or groupthink can justify cultural hegemony, especially violent or psychologically and economically abusive cultural hegemony.

#school #system #education #police #discipline #punishment #coersion #bullying #threats #intimidation #cultural hegemony #economic manipulation #gatekeeping

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The Make-Use-Of Doctrine and Non-Cooperative Protest

The Make-Use-Of Doctrine:

To survive during periods of non-cooperative protest or minimal-cooperative protest, many protesters may utilize what is offered to them, regardless of the intent or beliefs of those offering assistance.

They may not give into the system's ideologies, idea of justice or purpose, stagnant class structures or labor systems, as this would indicate an approval of oppression; but they may make use of resources, albeit without declaration of supporting said artificially limiting systems.

To survive systems of organized manufactured scarcity and cornering, a protester may still make use of what is available in various unjust systems in the same way that a political prisoner may still make use of what is available in an unjust prison system.

Non-cooperative Protest:

An act of civil disobedience, social abstinence and socio-economic abstinence in which an individual or group refuses to engage with a community or society (on some level) when said community or society doesn’t promote their optimal self interest, or as a protest against human rights violations and/or misrepresentation and obstruction that has lead to a current state that also doesn’t promote an optimal future for said individual or group.

#civil disobedience #protest #nonconformity #social equality #equal rights #human rights #civil rights #cultural hegemony #antiauthoritarianism

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Crypto-Fascist Triad

#social studies #social worker #sociology #fascism #dominance #aggressive #antifascism #cultural hegemony #oppression #groupthink #status #classism #prejudice #bias #racism #sexism #transphobia #homophobia #fallacy #civil disobedience

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How to know you're in an egocentric or propaganda-lead bubble/echo-chamber:

1. You are discouraged from considering statistics and external evidence over your personal experience(s) or your social groups (self-serving) conclusions.

2. You are encouraged to use biases and fallacies; especially fallacies such as the straw man, slippery slope, false equivalency, cherry picking and the ad hominem.

3. You are encouraged to be disruptive, dismissive and aggressive... and encourage others to do the same.

4.  You are encouraged to slander and dehumanize people that ask questions about power imbalances and injustices.

5. You are encouraged to ignore mainstream academic studies and conclusions; often you are encouraged to equate them with conspiracies.

6. You are encouraged to attack intellectualism and treat speakers as egotistical combatants.

7. You are encouraged to refer to talking points that are based in fallacies, biases and conjecture instead of listing mainstream facts and figures.

8. You are discouraged from Critical Thinking and Socratic Dialogue.

9. You are encouraged to dismiss questions like "what would it take for you to change you mind?".

10. You are encouraged to think that changing your mind is proposing some form of great loss, a probable social threat to further trust, or as a form a "losing face".

#egotism #egocentrism #bubble #echo chamber #circular reporting #logical fallacies #cognitive biases #politics #cults #culture #talking points #reason #logic #epistemology #propaganda #systems #system justification #stubbornness #academic #academia #critical thinking #disruption #social studies #psychology #social psychology

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The Problem With Mental Health Pop-Science

I'm definitely going to lose some people on this.

Often online you will see people talking about their dopamine and serotonin levels, chemical imbalances, etc.

They do this from a position of presumption and ignorance; although that isn’t entirely their fault.

In actual medicine and science, no one can make a specific claim without specific, direct, quantifiable evidence. There is no “this seems to fit the bill, so we can assume everything else” concept in science or medicine. Science is the study of quantifiable evidence; it’s not a tool to assist in stereotyping.

So when people make vlogs, tik toks and YouTube videos talking about their “chemical imbalance” and their “serotonin levels” or that a “region of their brain didn’t fully develop” based on a verbal-checklist diagnosis... they’re lying.

I’m not going to mince words here. It’s lying. Claiming that someone knows for a fact about their neurotransmitters without medical tests proving so... is a lie.

Yes, it’s very convenient for people to make claims based on stereotyping, especially when popular science magazine and videos keep hyping up possible links between a verbal-test based diagnosis and conclusions from small unreplicated studies. It’s very easy to not think critically and ask for specific evidence on a case by case basis.

The unfortunate reality is that using medical terms to make medical claims without direct physical medical testing is dishonest in the least and very harmful at the most.

Additionally, the Chemical Imbalance concept is actually called the Monoamine Hypothesis, and a Hypothesis is not better than a Scientific Theory, which requires adequate data. This hypothesis has not met this line; not according to the National Center for Mental Health, The World Health Organization, etc.

The Government’s National Institute of Mental Health has even gone on to publicly decry the use of Biological Argument, and has themselves put forward a critical Bio-Psycho-Social Model, since most evidence has shown that genetics can at most only influence 15% of executive functions tied to how we currently rank mental health (which has also come into question).

So when people ask you questions about your mental health claims, please don’t take personal offense to it if they are asking for the reasoning and justification for specific assertions in regards to diagnosis, chemical imbalances, neurotransmitters, brain function, etc.

In fact, many replicated studies indicate that people often copy behaviors they’ve been told are associated with certain illnesses in order to feel more in line with perceived stereotypes of diagnostic labels. Some of these studies even gave patients lists of fake symptoms, and more often than not they claimed to have had them. This is how the concept of Fictitious Disorders and Medical Feigning were discovered. These people aren’t always intentionally doing this, and often people will jump to conclusions and begin interpreting things though whatever lens they’re presented. This is part of the problem with people promoting inaccurate and incomplete popular science.

The general rule of thumb: If you haven’t had it measured, stop telling people you have that specific problem. It doesn’t mean you don’t have “a problem” or even “that problem”, it’s just not honest to make a declaration before the direct evidence is in.

Always remember: Anecdotal evidence and confirmation bias are not forms of scientific or medical evidence.

There’s nothing wrong with saying you don’t know something.

#mental health #mental illness #executive function #dsm #psychiatry #psychology #science #epistemology #empiricism #questions #adhd #add #bipolar #anxiety

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The Fools Fork: How People Construct & Hold Onto Beliefs

[The 4 "Prongs"]:

Worldview building

Narrative-saving bias (narrative reinforcing filter)

Counter-challenge bias (challenge rejecting filter)

Nuclear option

In a Fools Fork situation, people start with a worldview that particular things are "true" about people and situations, based not on science and statistics, but based on intuition, traditions or popular thought.

This results in people anchoring themselves to ideas, and thus many start building worldviews around not what they see directly but instead around what they don't see, assuming they can just fill in the blanks with stereotypes communicated by traditions and popular thought.

The purpose of the first prong is to lay out a strong "just" worldview, which allows for the observer to feel validated in their awareness of their surroundings and the rules of the world, as well as to create a list of reasons as to why the world is the way it is. Concepts Heavily Associated With The First Prong [Worldview Building]:

Availability bias

Attention bias

Belief bias

Social proof

False consensus effect

Status quo rationalization

Just world fallacy

Ought-is fallacy

Self-serving bias

Group-serving bias

When this is challenged, they move onto the second Prong, which is to claim anyone and any idea that challenges a preconceived notion must be biased or crazy, and thus they assert that specific motives or methods must be in play. Concepts Heavily Associated With The Second Prong [Narrative-Saving Bias]:

The argument from ignorance

Choice support bias

Appeal to authority

Appeal to populism

Arguments from tradition

Arguments from repetition

Naive realism (Psychology)

Asymmetrical insight bias

Anchoring

Filtering

Propaganda

Groupthink

Circular logic

Social projection

Since attempting to reinforce a stance may fail when fallacies and biases are use to support a stance (they may be called out), the secondary response to a challenge is to attempt to dismantle and attack the challenge and the challenge presenters themselves, giving way to the Third Fork. While this can be done rationally through an analysis of arguments and sources, many people are unfortunately under the misconception that if you eliminate the presenter that the argument disappears, and thus the "surviving" argument/presenter must be held to be true/correct. While this tactic is fallacious, it is seen in many debate forms. Concepts Heavily Associated With The Third Prong [Counter-Challenge Bias]:

Strawman attacks

Misquotes/quoting out of context

Personal attacks (ad hominem, poisoning the well, appeal to motive)

Circumstantial attacks (ad iram, pathos gambit, exception until proven otherwise)

Persecuting behaviors

Circular logic

Red herring

Denialism

Genetic fallacy

Deliberate Offense + DARVO

When both supporting one's own arguments/conclusions and attacking the opposition's arguments/conclusions do not work well enough to openly declare a "victory", often people often result to the "Nuclear Option". This is when one (or members of a group) attempt to overwhelm the opposition to effectively shut them down in the public light, or they attempt to use bureaucratic powers to do the same. Concepts Heavily Associated With The Forth Prong [Nuclear Option]:

Spamming (gish gallop + kettle logic + ad nauseum)

Hate bombing (especially accusatory hate bombing in groups)

Abuse of authority/power

Ad nauseum argument

Direct action (to silence)

Mobbing

"Official" "unchallengable" narrative control

Solutions:

The Socratic Method

The Epistemic Differentials Method

Evidence-based Method

The Falsificationist Scientific Method

The Post-positivist Scientific Method

Fallacy Analysis & Cognitive Bias Mitigation Method

#epistemology #psychology #sociology #reason #logic #fallacy #bias #arguments #debate