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WE ARE CHARLIE WE ARE CHARLIE WE ARE CHARLIE WE ARE CHARL
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david have i told you i picked up a copy of Extropian magazine in my favourite second hand bookshop?
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*holiday experience
Ideal restaurant experience: You sit alone in a windowless cubicle with a TV and an armchair, your food is delivered by a mechanical arm through some kind of hatch, and when you're finished you leave quietly through a trapdoor that leads into the abandoned subway tunnels
are you replying to something i’ve said in answer to your question or are you building on your own theme here? it’s difficult to tell
i feel like the answer to your question is covered in the thread, but i hope this helps interpret what i said in there, since it was written in a hurry for fun
right, i was only noting where we disagree, and we continue to do so but not in any way that matters for your question
but i’d downplay the “discontents“ aspect

the major political parties in every country have been recruiting dweebs for their “young conservative” “young labor” groups for decades
i find common sense unhelpful

”lanyard fascism” approximately refers to a putative emerging group of fascist intellectuals mostly trained on the internet’s parallel academia who are finding a niche in emerging fascist governments today, but also derived from discontents at top academic programmes
and i would draw a sharp cultural and economic distinction between “bourgeois” and “aristocratic” etc. etc. etc.
I don’t agree with the specifics of your genealogies here, although I agree with broad strokes (I would put “capital” where you talk about “elites” for example), but I also don’t know what your question is

You say, “is it about…” at the top, but I don’t know what “it” refers to
it’s an example, for comparison, i don’t even know what you think beside “it’s good idiot, shut up”
well ok but i’m not the one who initially called him a hack, i’m just an innocent who dared to come in and ask for your perspective and got your bad mood back for my trouble
e.g. insofar as children exhibit self-deceptive behaviour there are plenty of non-evolutionary explanations to go around, and these produce better more testable predictions, and finer-grained means of analysis, but within the narrow sociobiological field Trivers gets away with ignoring these
well this is why i’m asking for your perspective rather than just the assertion that that stuff is plainly not hackery

to me it looks like hackery! it looks like making up an explanation for an observed behaviour on the spot, failing to even acknowledge competing explanations, and declaring victory
and the self-deception stuff was all in the 1970s
well no, but I was asking about the self-deception stuff

he may be brilliant elsewhere! but insofar as i take him for a hack it’s the self-deception stuff that i’ve noticed
his explanations and deployments of the concept seem absolutely brain-shrinkingly vague to me
perhaps you can explain from a personal POV how Trivers has anything to say about self-deception that can’t be better explained by run-of-the-mill psychology, or even (!!!) the sorts of tools with which psychoanalysis brought self-deception to the forefront 50 years earlier, ‘cos i don’t get it
100% success rate for my “your mastering engineer is the canary in your shit boring sound coalmine” method
5 seconds of listening, it’s bad!
very reassured to learn that although this government may be enthusiastically supportive of racism in deed, conscience, backroom shenanigans, policing, and foreign policy, it absolutely will not stand for it in those specific words
"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'