#Discourse on Inequality

[philosophybits]

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying “this is mine”, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: “Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

#philosophy #quotes #Jean-Jacques Rousseau #Discourse on Inequality #property #possession #ownership #wealth #society #politics

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S02E02 (Il corpo)

Book title: Origine della disuguaglianza (Discours sur l'origine et les fondaments de l'inégalité parmi les hommes in French; 1755) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#books in tv shows #l'amica geniale #my brilliant friend #my brilliant friend season 2 #l'amica geniale season 2 #french literature #jean jacques rousseau #origine della disuguaglianza #discourse on inequality

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Jean Jacques Rousseau #Discourse on Inequality #Rousseau #freedom #liberty #oppression #ambition #classism #authority #independence #politics

[craycraybluejay]

What I really can't stand today is that people are arguing about whether we should allow queer people to exist or whether some random fiction is immoral while THERE ARE HOMELESS PEOLLE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW. Why do you care about what strangers are doing on the internet? Go the fuck outside and help your community. Give a guy a few bucks so he can EAT. Stop wasting your time on meaningless discourse about fiction and who is less or more human or worthy than someone else and fucking deal with real problems. Either that or shut the hell up because its annoying as shit and I do not see you making any positive, tangible change. You're encouraging censorship policies and genocide by legislation. Yay for you. Now get your head out of your ass and do something not cowardly.

Do something that isn't just a bunch of hypotheticals, what ifs, and strange claims with unreputable or straight up nonexistent sources. Hypothetically, violent video games could inspire a particularly dull kid with particularly poor impulse control to beat up some other kid. However, in reality, what's happening with those kids is they can't afford school lunches. What's happening with one of them is they're getting beat and can't get help because of our shit social services and the other one has to raise 5 siblings because the parents are constantly trying to keep them fed and housed. In theory, a person could go through the hell that is being openly trans to transition to a woman in order to idk look at women in women's bathrooms. But in reality, many people can't even afford to spend money on medical care they need, let alone cosmetic changes they don't. And in reality, people who are really trans are generally a lot less interested in your piss breaks than you think and are probably more afraid of your hate than you are of some perceived wrongness with their existence.

Let's shut the hell up for a second about theories and possibilities and ideas. Let's talk about real, material needs and change. Let's talk about the problems that are actually resulting in widespread suffering and death. Fiction is great. But real life is important too, especially when change is needed. If you want to claim yourself a messiah of morality and ethics; focus on helping other people in real life.

#leftism #leftist #direct action #fuck liberals #virtue signaling #is a problem #online discourse #is not activism #praxis #homelessness #wealth inequality #mutual aid #community support #hot take #i saw homeless people and felt so angry at the state #bite kill maim #unity or death #they seek to divide us #wouldnt it be so cool and so not snowflake for us to show a united front #and all be one angry people who direct our anger in the most currently pressing matters #and help each other?

[fadedgilt]

From ‘A Discourse on Inequality’ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#a discourse on inequality #jean jacques rousseau

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

"JJ telling me to hit it raw" ?????? All I know about Rousseau is that he argued for a republic and the frev guys really liked him. I've never actually read his books. Everytime you post something about his books I get even more confused. You could post a complete lie, you could be like "JJ once said eating pussy can make you contract hysteria" and I would believe it. Wtf was this man

SJDNJSJDBDKS

Here's your proof for Anon's "JJ telling me to hit it raw" lmaooo

They translated it as "cheat nature", but I like my "deceive nature" better :/

Here's JJ Rousseau, deadbeat dad to 5 kids, telling you to hit it raw, don't jerk off, and not have an abortion. Thanks JJ....

#its from Discourse on the Inequality of Man btw #ask #anon ask

[rubiscodisco]

This week on why I think there is no hope for the Global North, the top comments on this reddit thread

#globalization #post-colonial discourse #colonialism #imperialism #environmental inequality #climate change #environmental injustice

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Hi all!

Touched some grass, maybe touched too much grass, and got wiped out by a headache. The weekly weekday grind is about to begin so I’m going to temper my contributions to the ongoing conversations around and about the dinluke fandom.

That said, I’ve had quite a bit of catching up to do and want to say the following-

While the discourse quickly centered around dark!dinluke and dark!dinluke creators, I agree with Withercrown’s latest and other later posts from others that this group is not solely to blame for what’s been happening to this fandom. The dark!dinluke corner may be the most highly visible one and have contributed much to the toxic stereotypes, tropes, and trends that have dominated much of the fanworks we see nowadays, but they are not the only ones and cannot be solely blamed for every ill that seems to plague and diminish the ship’s fandom. There are many other fanworks that don’t share the same themes and (infamous? improper? nonexistent?) tags as the dark!dinluke corner but feature many of the same problems - racism, racialized xenophobia, homophobia, heterosexism, gendered stereotypes. 

I did my part in centering the debate around them and also on the racism and xenophobia surrounding Din Djarin and Pedro Pascal with my responses to asks, my reblogs, my tags. While I know these conversations needed to be had (and they keep needing to be had, why do we keep needing to have these conversations???), I should’ve done more to highlight the other major problems with the fandom. I also didn’t speak up when discussions and headcanons fetishized and applied heterosexist ideas and tropes onto gay/MLM relationships and characters, and that’s something I need to work on. I’ve complained in private spaces many times my frustrations with characterizations of Luke in particular but never took them public. Seems like it’s time to end that.

It also bears reminding that all of these major problems with the dinluke ship and fandom that had been driving people away and reducing participation in these spaces are not separate. They are not isolated, they are not single issues to be addressed one by one. These are inter-connected and intersectional. Any effort to do better and to make a better community needs to take into account how we should approach Din and Luke as individuals and in a relationship. I do what I can while keeping in mind how Din is perceived because of his actor and I do the same for Luke (and for every other character in Star Wars, really, they all deserve this). 

I’m just a human, I will fuck up (I have fucked up), but I’m always striving to correct myself, learn, and do better - for me, for the people in fandom, and for a ship I very much love.

I have a few asks in my inbox but I want to spend the rest of the night being productive with other things so I’ll address them later in the week. I’m also keeping anon asks off in the meantime for the same reasons. When will anon asks get turned back on? That’s for me to know and for you to find out.

Take care of yourselves. Do what you must for your sake. I’ll see y’all on the flip side.

#dinluke #skydalorian #tbh when I made that post I didn't expect it to blow up or kickstart another weekend of discoursing #I'm glad for it though I think we strayed too far from all the major issues Withercrown had brought up in his original post #but here's the thing - Withercrown was simply the straw that broke my camel's back #my poor camel had to bear the weight of all of my frustrations and anger toward not just dark!dinluke but other dinluke fans #I'm the poor fool who sat on that back with my silence and my fears about fandom and then that straw came down on my head #on a personal note - I hated gendered stereotypes and tropes all my life and my discomfort has led to me questioning myself #(one could argue that vico ortiz and OFMD's jim jimenez led me to seriously asking myself if I wasn't as cis as I thought I was) #that discomfort has also made me hyperaware of characters being assigned these traits and roles based on racialized and heterosexist ideas #it was never just the racism or xenophobia but also how the racism and xenophobia played into characterizing din and luke a certain way #the thing about intersectionality (besides it being really about frameworks of power and legal systems in the US) is that it is hard #it is hard work because it asks you to take into account so many facets of identity and inequality and you can lose track or focus #and it is ongoing. it never ends. so long as these systems and structures are in place we have to live and breathe it #it doesn't just go away after a weekend of volleying back and forth about statistics and identity #for me the hurt really began in 2016 with the finnpoe discourse which only worsened with The Last Jedi the next year #these hurts never left and will never leave because fandom doesn't learn doesn't do better #but I'm truly tired of being quiet and of wallowing silently in despair and of losing hope #so if I have to lob fireballs into the dinluke tag and show myself then so be it

[wileycap]

I have an unrealistic dream and it is that every single worker would just stop serving rich people. I mean anything. Literally anything. A bus ticket? Nah. A yacht? Nah. Nothing. Nada.

I don't mean "has 1 million in an index fund after 40 years of working" rich, or anything like that.

I mean the billionaires.

What, you want champagne, Bezos? Better learn to grow grapes! And also better get some grape seeds from out in the wild, foraging for them like a goblin, 'cause nobody's selling to you!

Want some steaks, Musk? Whoo, look who's going to go domesticate some wild cows!

Want your McDonalds, Buffett? Better fire up the grill and buy some hamburgers from Mr Musk, if he's managed to get any cows! And don't forget that nobody's going to sell you gas for your grill!

The impact on global economy would be negligible. It's like a couple of thousand of people. But the impact for these people, to become completely cut off in a flash, would be ginormous. It would perfectly illustrate what we all know: we do not need them, but they sure need us.

Anyways. It's late and I've just got the midnight munchies... for the flesh of the rich.

#eat the rich #fuck billionaires #wealth inequality #discourse #inequality

[edgysaintjust]

The other Anon was so right! I feel bad for the JJ stans. JJ just reinvented catholic morals under the guise of enlightenment ideals like... Cool now these kids won't fear the Archaic Tyrannical Church but did you know the Supreme Being and Nature disapprove of casual sex and homosexuality!! That's so sad just let them be.

Just have a drunk threesome with your best friend if you want, it doesn't make you a bad person!

JJ couldn't have a drunk threesome so he decided the only option is to make it look virtuous and call it his enlightened philosophy. He swears it's not like bad aristocratic catholicism because all nobles are sodomites now.

#in my dreams the entire french revolution is based on voltaire #they figured out the entire discourse on inequality themselves and the rest is v's hypocrisy that they somehow made work #but yes anon so true!!! #those asks make me believe in humanity #we are so stuck with those mindsets #ask #anon #rousseau

[rodaportal]

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#capitalism #techno-feudalism #economic systems #global financial crisis #tech giants #Yanis Varoufakis #wealth inequality #digital dominance #alternative infrastructure #regulatory environment #democratic norms #financialization #digital future #innovation #inequality #public discourse #cooperative models #societal challenges #Youtube

[l-in-c-future]

The Tyranny of Merit: What's become of the Common Good? 2-Foresight perspective

"The term meritocracy was invented by a British sociologist Michael Young in 1958 when he wrote the book "The Rise of Meritocracy". Young described a dystopia when the Bristish class system was breaking down, giving way to a system of educational and professional advancement based on merits. Young glimpsed the dark side of meritocracy. Writing as if he were a historian looking back from the year 2033, he described with uncanny clarity that the moral logic of meritocracy society that was beginning to unfold in the postwar Britain of his day.

Young shed light on a paradoxical feature of a meritocracy order. It does not reduce inequality; it reconfigures inequality to align with ability. But this reconfiguration creates a presumption that people get what they deserve. And this presumption deepens the gap between rich and poor.

Not only Young anticipated the meritocratic hubris of elites; he glimpsed their affirnity for technocratic expertise, their tendency to look down on those who lacked their lustrous credentials, and the corrosive effect of these attitudes on public discourse.

Young observed that some members of the meritocracy have become so imprssed with their own importance as to lose sympathy with the people whom they govern.

Resentment against elites was compounded by the self-doubt that a meritocracy inflicts on those who fail to rise. Young anticipated that this toxic brew of hubris and resentment would fuel a political backlash. He concluded his dystopian by predicting that, in 2034, the less educated class would rise up in a populist revolt against the meritocratic elites. In 2016, as Britain voted for Brexit and America for Trump, that revolt arrived eighteen years ahead of schedule."-

-Chapter 5 Success Ethics. pg 116-119 Michael J Sandel. "The Tyranny of Meritocracy. What's become of the Common Good?

#technocracy #meritocracy #populist #populism #inequality #social discourse #disenfranchised

[benevolent-blackhole]

It’s frustrating that so much discourse about teaching takes place in people’s memories of being a student 10-50 years ago and not the current reality (or even necessarily reality 10-50 years ago, but definitely not current situation)

#the discourse about accommodations on Twitter for example is totally ignorant of the current situation #which research is showing is greatly excerbating inequalities #and also just frequently doesn’t make sense

[bolsheviky2k]

Rousseau’s Second Discourse???

Particular emphasis on the question marks there. I expected it to be hard to read going in, but uhhhh...well I’ll get into it.

After reading the actual text, I read over a summary of the arguments on a university website. In fact, I read the summary 3 times. I still didn’t understand what Rousseau was arguing. It’s not even clear to me that he’s arguing anything.

Obviously in the first part, he says *some* agreeable stuff -- what with the refutation of Hobbes. Basically, he says that “human nature” is any and everything, so essentializing humans to just be bad is bullshit. He also explains that humans aren’t mere wild beasts; rather, we have imaginations that make us smarter than other animals in some ways.

That’s all well and good, until the second part. With regards to inequality, Rousseau sends VERY mixed signals. One thing I can pretty unambiguously disagree with is the characterisation of inequality as having arisen initially from the most meritorious individuals in a society, being rightfully lofted above the rest. This is plainly not true, and is an argument applied post-hoc to morally justify inequality after it has arisen through competition between interests (the “meritocracy” argument). In this respect, Hobbes had a point in that self-interested individuals can be so self-interested to the point of Machiavellianism; throwing others under the bus for their own gain. Merit has nothing to do with it.

Then it starts really getting into the weeds, with Rousseau at different points suggesting that political inequality came before socioeconomic inequality and that socioeconomic inequality came before political equality. I really don’t know if he’s arguing anything in particular, but if I had to hazard a guess it’d be an eighteenth century French-liberal-speak version of “OK so civil society is responsible for a lot of inequality but if we just make a liberal democracy where the state officials are elected and women stay in the kitchen it’ll be different I swear.”

Kinda based sometimes, kinda cringe at several points, and overall a clusterfuck of words. Why are French people like this.

#political philosophy #philosophy #theory #jean-jacques rousseau #jean jacques rousseau #rousseau #second discourse #inequality

[floralquafloral]

I think that they should actually keep poll availability the way it is now. Right now people who have access to polls can use blog submissions to give a poll to anyone who doesn't, so that that person can edit the poll freely and then post it, but only once per submission. They should keep it like this, there should be a permanent tumblr upper class of the people who have access to infinite polls, and they can dole them out to us poll-less peasants according to their whims.

#floralaqua #i'm acting against my best interests here because i don't have polls but i just think it would be funny #i want overt and completely arbitrary inequality on tumblr #and i especially want there to be discourse about it

[new-nublaccsoul]

#capitalist society #society #inequality #capitalism #socialcommentary #nublaccsoul #fuck capitalism #anti capitalism #critical thinking #discourse #capitalist realism #writing