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Moral people behave poorly, while many with integrity have no rules.
The recognition of this is to grasp absurdity and strip away all justifications.
Here, you are innocent, not naive but not justifying anything, living outside of dictated morality.
In this sense, the innocent is dangerous.(idea from Albert Camus)
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Nature is a concept that needs to be clarified.
If nature exists outside of areas man has civilized, then it is an artificial notion of otherness (an alien space to which we visit.) Extended, we are not natural but temporary inhabitants keeping nature at bay.
It has colonial roots and enlightenment germination and harbors the seeds of bad faith, yet it is still the soil from which we derive sustenance.
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The absurd is when your aim does not match your strength or ability, according to Albert Camus.
To charge a wall armed only with anger is absurd.
To expect success while ignoring reality is absurd in direct proportion to the scale of your goals. A situation becomes absurd when the odds are infinitesimal, yet the individual persists.
This defiance against reality is equal parts hopeful and bravery, yet also insanity.
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When presented with the “sinking of the titanic” or the “reign of the pharaohs” in a museum, you encounter protected, curated historical artifacts and detailed, digitized storyline renderings.
When you encounter alien museums, they appear cobbled together by an amateur, often using a Xerox machine and hot glue. The budget craft leans into kitsch, undermining credibility.
Would enhancing the display to align with high-budget blockbusters create easier acceptance through a mainstream aesthetic?
Or is homemade production the key to alien culture’s resilience? By eschewing the mainstream, it opens itself to outsiders, using its cheapness as camouflage to maintain a joking persistence over short-lived seriousness.
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First: you will never understand. I am either more enlightened, more oppressed, or more sympathetic than you.
Second: if you agree, the drama gets worse. If you disagree, you are a monster.
Third: do nothing. Observe. There will be plenty to do later.
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Karl Marx was a revolutionary in his time and is still such today. However, he was regressive (conservative) morally.
His values, the values of communism, held to an early tribal or even Catholic disposition: cost should not disrupt/corrupt the importance of humanity or the value of souls.
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Society produces excess and then must channel it, either into conquest or religion, or conspicuous wealth. This frivolous expenditure, this blatant waste, undermines society’s stability. (The “peasants” become angry.)
In the face of revolt, society must find a new collective means to channel its excess, perhaps a means that decries violence and lot in the name of peace.
Those busy making peace would consume the surplus.
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When recruiting for a cause, organic mutation leads to impossible promises and tainted origins.
Only a few members will align with your long-term familial agenda: finding the appropriate dysfunctions to thrive is a numbers game.
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We often switch the game without changing our motivation.
Example: We drink until we are out of control, allowing us to lose inhibition and seek attention. We then get sober to stay in power. Feeling empowered, we start to moralize.
The new game comes with new power and accolades from society, from which we can get more attention.
Are we better off? Absolutely.
Have we addressed the primal driver? No.
What happens next? We find yet another game.
