I'm glad you brought it up first; I considered bringing it up but some of my "superfans" on here tend to get mad if I ever bring up old threads and assume in bad faith that I just make things up because I'm the resident joyless scold treat critic and disliking me in that way somehow implies that everything I say (without exhaustive forum history digging, at least, but maybe not even then) is wrong and/or a lie.
Anyway, yeah, vulgar materialism is just edgy and often misanthropic reductionism with a bunch of Marxist flair stickers. I reject it.
Hexbearian philosophy is truly incredible, you have to explain things that should be so incredibly self explanatory. You get STEMlord takes like:
Thought experiments are stupid because they’re not realistic. DAE thinking isn’t real it’s all chemicals? Checkmate stupid idealist.
Marx’s materialist analysis of the economy proves that consciousness doesn’t exist. (Thinking involves ideas, and you can’t hold ideas because they’re not physical, therefore consciousness is idealist garbage). As everyone knows Marx proved that ideas don’t exist. Real buzzword blender territory here.
Thousands of years of nonstop inquiry simply can’t withstand my materialist genius explaining that one of the greatest mysteries of all time is actually really easy and I just solved it you morons.
Literally treating materialism in an economic context as if it were completely interchangeable with physicalism.
A lot of people here need to learn that “that word doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means.”
I think the stemlord takes make a bit more sense when you remember that, as much as everyone likes to dunk on on here, this place did ultimately come from a subreddit. It might have been a somewhat less cringe subreddit, but becoming vaguely leftist doesn't automatically free you from Reddit Thought
I'm glad you brought it up first; I considered bringing it up but some of my "superfans" on here tend to get mad if I ever bring up old threads and assume in bad faith that I just make things up because I'm the resident joyless scold treat critic and disliking me in that way somehow implies that everything I say (without exhaustive forum history digging, at least, but maybe not even then) is wrong and/or a lie.
Anyway, yeah, vulgar materialism is just edgy and often misanthropic reductionism with a bunch of Marxist flair stickers. I reject it.
Hexbearian philosophy is truly incredible, you have to explain things that should be so incredibly self explanatory. You get STEMlord takes like:
Thought experiments are stupid because they’re not realistic. DAE thinking isn’t real it’s all chemicals? Checkmate stupid idealist.
Marx’s materialist analysis of the economy proves that consciousness doesn’t exist. (Thinking involves ideas, and you can’t hold ideas because they’re not physical, therefore consciousness is idealist garbage). As everyone knows Marx proved that ideas don’t exist. Real buzzword blender territory here.
Thousands of years of nonstop inquiry simply can’t withstand my materialist genius explaining that one of the greatest mysteries of all time is actually really easy and I just solved it you morons.
Literally treating materialism in an economic context as if it were completely interchangeable with physicalism.
A lot of people here need to learn that “that word doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means.”
I think the stemlord takes make a bit more sense when you remember that, as much as everyone likes to dunk on
on here, this place did ultimately come from a subreddit. It might have been a somewhat less cringe subreddit, but becoming vaguely leftist doesn't automatically free you from Reddit Thought
THANK YOU.
I've ran into each and every example you've given and it helps that it's not me saying it first.