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My hot take is that "bullying" is a term associated with childhood and something we think of as "childish" not really because adults do it less but because we actually make more excuses to protect adults who do it https://twitter.com/dreamingnoctis/status/1291584154958798850">https://twitter.com/dreamingn...
Like WEB DuBois& #39; thing about the "psychic wage of racism"
It is a "wage", in and of itself, to be able to belittle and dehumanize people
It& #39;s not a means to an end -- it can be, but it& #39;s also an end in itself
It feels good, it& #39;s fulfilling, it& #39;s what some people live for
It is a "wage", in and of itself, to be able to belittle and dehumanize people
It& #39;s not a means to an end -- it can be, but it& #39;s also an end in itself
It feels good, it& #39;s fulfilling, it& #39;s what some people live for
Like, *that& #39;s what people spend money ON*
People don& #39;t fuck with people as a strategy to climb the ladder and become the boss
They become the boss *so they can fuck with people*
That& #39;s the reward, that& #39;s the reason you do it
People don& #39;t fuck with people as a strategy to climb the ladder and become the boss
They become the boss *so they can fuck with people*
That& #39;s the reward, that& #39;s the reason you do it
John Wilkes Booth stated in so many words exactly why he felt the need to assassinate Lincoln, even though he was very likely to die himself in the process
He could not imagine living in a world where if he insulted a Black man, the Black man could make him back down
He could not imagine living in a world where if he insulted a Black man, the Black man could make him back down
It wouldn& #39;t be worth it, it would be like not living at all
Like never having an orgasm again, or never being able to eat food or listen to music
Like never having an orgasm again, or never being able to eat food or listen to music
I& #39;ve talked a lot of shit about Orwell recently and the unrealism of his nightmarish image of totalitarian societies but surely everyone knows the *feeling* he was describing came from a very real, universal place
The paranoia that they& #39;re out to get you just to get you
The paranoia that they& #39;re out to get you just to get you
Because, you know, sometimes they are
The torture chamber doesn& #39;t support the government, the government supports the torture chamber
The atrocities aren& #39;t in service of the revolution, the revolution is in service of the atrocities
Boots stamping on faces forever etc
The torture chamber doesn& #39;t support the government, the government supports the torture chamber
The atrocities aren& #39;t in service of the revolution, the revolution is in service of the atrocities
Boots stamping on faces forever etc
I think that traumatized people, like Orwell obviously was, often do what CBT therapists call "catastrophizing" and "universalizing", like you really think an overwhelming conspiracy of schoolyard bullies out to fuck with you personally runs the world ("cancel culture")
And that leads to some very bad places, in fact if you don& #39;t put up any walls against it there& #39;s no bad place it can& #39;t lead
Orwell preparing to go McCarthyist on his deathbed, making a blacklist of Stalinist fellow-travelers, etc
Hurt people hurt people, and all that
Orwell preparing to go McCarthyist on his deathbed, making a blacklist of Stalinist fellow-travelers, etc
Hurt people hurt people, and all that
But you gotta acknowledge the emotional place it comes from is real
The sick feeling when you come up against a situation where you can& #39;t bargain or negotiate your way out of getting fucked with because your pain is the actual goal
The sick feeling when you come up against a situation where you can& #39;t bargain or negotiate your way out of getting fucked with because your pain is the actual goal
And a lot of the Trump voter discourse keeps missing this, refusing to accept that the "psychic wage" IS A WAGE
"Why do these people vote against their own economic interests"
Well, even assuming that that& #39;s actually true, they think they& #39;re getting fair value for their money
"Why do these people vote against their own economic interests"
Well, even assuming that that& #39;s actually true, they think they& #39;re getting fair value for their money
They& #39;re not being conned, the deal is upfront and square
Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a whole economic future in return for your enemy& #39;s abjection and humiliation
They can afford it and they& #39;ll pay it because it& #39;s worth it, nothing else gives the same bang for the buck
Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a whole economic future in return for your enemy& #39;s abjection and humiliation
They can afford it and they& #39;ll pay it because it& #39;s worth it, nothing else gives the same bang for the buck
Hence the takes about why this or that abusive rich person -- including the one in the White House right now -- doesn& #39;t just retire and enjoy their money
Enjoy it how? How many Big Macs can one person actually eat? How many golden towers can you build before you get sick of it?
Enjoy it how? How many Big Macs can one person actually eat? How many golden towers can you build before you get sick of it?
