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Over the past few years, I made the decision to totally cut obscenities out from my speech. You might actually be able to find recordings of me cursing four or five years ago, but as of now, I really stand by my decision. Obscenities are the linguistic equivalent of an trashy emaciated person entirely decked in tattoos, smoking cigarettes and wearing a shirt with nudity on it. They'll defend what they do on the idea that it's someone "their right," or "expression," as if they do what they do for some lofty philosophical reason.

When a person curses, it's a direct indication that they are thinking on a lower, more reactive, more emotional level.

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Generally I don't like this kinda faux-intellectual and antagonistic writing. Reading this makes me pull out technical jargon or fancy words from my vocabulary like weeds. They use the term coomer which I haven't seen in years. They mentioned an undergrad in econ somewhere, maybe that's what give the boon of confidence?

Anyone else think they may have become sorta like this if things were different? I think that may have happened to me if I was less caring of others... and more hateful of others instead of hateful of myself (still working on that!)

Something interesting is the casual usage of psychology as an explanation, usually where the reason why someone or some people do a thing is because of a keen insight of the writer, where, what people self-report is untrue and what is inferred is true.

They also talk about conspiracy a ton for some reason.

The kinds of thinking really go all around, it really confuses me as how said folk manage to create a coherent understanding. The easy answer is maybe they don't, and I might be inclined to agree, I'd like to try and have a dialogue to see how their brains work.

  • SSJ2Marx
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    8 months ago

    I swear pretty openly, although I do try to keep it limited to certain situations. This isn't because I think swearing is bad, but because I realize that it increases the punch of the swear if it's by itself and not surrounded on all sides by similar words.

    the casual usage of psychology as an explanation

    If there's been a through-line in my adult life, it's that everything I learned in Psych 101 has turned out to be completely wrong. Maybe it's my fault for misremembering everything, but I aced that course so I feel like it's more likely it was the material that was wrong.

    Anyway I share your feeling that if things had turned out a bit different I would totally be one of these guys. Getting into socialism has made me be a better person by pushing me to be critical of my own reactionary impulses, which I used to dress up in semiscientific language based on completely wrong things I learned at some point or another.

    • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      I wonder, I had friends take econ and they would make sweeping statements about people's behavior, they'd also mention microecon, maybe a bit of it comes from there?

      AHHH, I had a 'devil's advocate/contrarian' phase I cannot think about it without bending over cringing