Yah it's something like that, the WWE/kayfabe thing but spreading through reality broadly, where one chooses to believe something they know isn't true, and thus it becomes true to them. Abandoning of accountability for one's own beliefs and embracing whatever corresponds to whatever feels most validating or satisfying. I lost a family member to this in the form of conspiracism and delusion, instead of getting help for voices and visions, they found a community to support them and started making money from people seeking meaning and truth (the truth they want to hear that is) and as a result just tripled down on every crazy idea and was eventually arrested for taking a weapon to a school and was eventually released and went right back to their supportive community online.

I think the AI/atomized internet is going to either destroy us all, or it will force some people to actually reconcile their weaknesses as a cognitive being and how limited and vulnerable our minds really are in order to create safeguards against the most devious mental traps imaginable.

Got me remembering Badiou's Ethics and how part of evil involves "fidelity to the lie" and actively denying the shared truth of reality.

What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?

I am saving this, it's very well said.

For real, I thought I knew this, I thought I was aware of the problem, then when covid hit I had an actual mental breakdown realizing just how bad it actually is, how the number of people who have cognitive thoughts is actually a slim, slim margin of the population and how "stuck" we are as a species. Most people with a few brain cells have no idea how bad it really is, and the rest are too stupid to care.

What's worse is we've taken ourselves out of selective processes for improvement. We will never, ever get smarter or fix this because it offers our species no advantages to do so.

We will never have the stars. I mourned that fact. Not in my lifetime, not a thousand years after me. If anyone leaves our speck in space, it won't be us, it will be some descendant species that we created or changed into over time.

TIL of the godfather of the quadrant meme, is that the name?

I feel like it's worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person

Did you mean faith? People believe lots of stuff for good reasons.

so it's evil only if she preaches it as a lifestyle?

It’s a fact that in societies with high wealth disparities and a lack of mobility gender and social roles tend to be more rigid, whereas in societies with more equality they are more flexible. Which is largely a product of people seeking economic security first and foremost, and gender freedom only after they have it.

You have any good sources on this? Not being cynical, just genuinely interested.

Or, perhaps, the US isn't the center of the world and other countries aren't "imitating patterns", this is just also happening there for mostly the same reasons.

The confusion is language.

In the Quran, he's called Isa and is mentioned over 30 times.

Same way Allah refers to the same God Judaism calls Yahweh and Christians aren't supposed to say aloud because they treat God like Voldemort.

The Shahada explicitly mentions that Mohammed is the 'final' messenger of God. Also called "Khatam an-Nabiyyin,” usually translated as “Seal of the Prophets.” That phrase comes from the Quran (33:40.) Muslims interpret it to mean he is the last prophet in a long line of prophets.

Muslims often consider what Mohammed said to be the end of the conversation, contrary to numerous prophets that came before him.

So if there's 'one' prophet to 'go to', under Islam, Mohammed is the alpha prophet.

Some Muslims don't even believe Jesus was crucified. Some think there was a substitution.

The abrahamic religions are so dynamic yet the ego(d)centricity remains. You move from a dumb God that gets fooled by Satan chapter after chapter. Getting God to torture his most devout worshippers. Fun.

Then you get Jesus! Praise Jesus! Love each other. The hippy socialist. Flipping tables and feeding the hungry, healing the sick, visiting prisoners, and he even raised the dead occasionally. Truly God in the flesh.

Then you get Allah. A transcendental god. A thing that's best described not by what it is, but by what it is not.

Then how they go from no after life, aka sheol. To heaven and hell (many mansions, weeping gnashing of teeth). Then you get paradise with 72 virgins, so kind of like Mormonism. Oh wait? You don't get your own planet and godhood itself? SMH. noob.

Serious.

How exactly does that work? I'm pretty ignorant of most religions.

I know the Koran came after the Bible and that Moses and Jesus are considered holy. Is Muhammed the ultimate prophet? Can other prophets come later and add to the Koran?

Woah now, let’s not put bears into categories based solely on the colour of their fur.

I disagree, that puts the last few years of Millennials into Gen Z though. That puts me into Gen Z and I'm a few years before the cutoff.

I would like to go back to a world without Pokemon.

Power Utility Application. "Electrify your woman with this 1 easy trick" bs stuff.

Pick up artist.

Wouldn’t that argument work the same way for men? To be clear, I’m not a fan of that argument for any gender. But fair is fair.

I’m polyam, so my experiences are quite different. I’m finding more married people looking for a third, which is awkward when I’m more of a “relationship anarchist” and don’t want to put my partners into tiers above/below each other (or be put into such tiers myself.)

it's not selection bias, it's what's on the market.

unless you think I should start trying to date married women?

married women's views aren't relevant to single men because they aren't available to date.

No I live in upper class America.

I'm making statements about my life and experiences. And how human beings operate. Human beings need someone to tell them how to act, and what to do, and how to behave. They dislike not having that.

Ever since I turned 35 every women I meet wants this. I have never met a woman who wants an equal partner in dating since I was in my early 30s, over 10 years ago.

Yes I date women my own age. They are the ones who are the most vocal and adamant about it. When I meet women you are under 35, on rare occasional, they tend to be less aggressive about it. For example, women under 35 don't ask me my salary on a first date, women over 40, almost always do. All they seem to care about is how much money I have and if I am going to give it to them. Like, they ask me to take them on expensive trips, buy them cars, and think going on $500 dinner takes should be a weekly event. They all have advanced degrees, PhDs, JDs, MDs.

And every time I talk about this, I get this comment. 'oh you must only be dating shallow young women for their looks.' No, I date average looking women who are my own age, and they almost exclusively want a 1950s style relationship, even when they are doctors, lawyers, etc. their 'ultimate romantic fantasy' is to quit their job and be 'taken care of'.

I also live in Boston, the most educated city in the country, and yet all these educated successful women basically aspire to be financially dependent housewives. It baffles the hell out of me. I put in my profile on dating apps that I want an equal partner and I get weird messages about what loser I am from these women because a man's job is to provide for her his woman and her career/job should be optional.

Last week I was on a date and this woman I was with told me she values her career and independence BUT she really is looking for a man who 'take care of her' such that she doesn't have to work anymore. And I laughed and said that's not what I am looking for, I want someone to split bills with and build a life together as a working couple and she got angry with me. Then when the check came she was like 'WELL I GUESS I SHOULD SPLIT THE BIll' all bitter and shit. It was miserable. This is like 90% of my dates, it's the same stuff every time, it's like they all copy pasted from the same script...

women's social media is rife with this 1950s shit. all my friends and family are in partnerships where they both work and split bills and raise kids together. but on the singles dating market in my city, I never ever meet any such women who want that type of life. I probably should try to date at 25 year olds, because when I was 25 I was with a girlfriend who wanted to split bills and pay her own way. but in my life experience, once women hit 35 they decide they hate being independent career women and 'deserve' to be 'taken care of'. when i was younger I never met women who talked that way.

Could you specify one feminist text that you’d say is a good example of this hating on men and controlling women? This description doesn’t match what I’ve read but I’m interested to see if there’s a side of feminist thinking I’m not familiar with.

So which is it: has this topic been taught as super important since childhood, or does no-one know about it?

Also pretty sure a 4 year old would have little problem understanding "gender expression is how you act and dress and talk, gender roles are what people think you should act and dress and talk like". So, IDK, maybe have your nephew checked or something?