Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:19 pm
I watched the whole stream and it didn't bother me at all, but then I assumed it was going to be about
how Vladdy thought rather than
what. The strangest thing to the western classical liberal mind is a self constrained not by the personal and the immediate, but grounded in traditional and tribal priorities. The self is not entirely within the head. It's not entirely clear to me that the bony prison of the skull that our prized individuality celebrates is necessarily better than the authoritarian societies we reflexively excoriate....'>.....
tribal cultual memory , tribal identity, all solid foundations for many people and most individualist westerners dont understand that - for the modern city dweller they react against the chaos on a day by day basis and they cant even imagine the old ways, they live in a world of endless change and group identity is fleeting and an act of choice, for the individual.
better or worse has got nothing to do with it, dumping a peasant into new york, or a new yorker into a rural village, it just is what it is.
you could argue those that join the army or other such ruthlessly organised collections are craving that space.
it is comforting too, because nothing is your fault, you are part of something bigger, not recreating everything from scratch, alone.