It's not about red or blue pill
1. Epistemology: Taxonomy of Belief Maintenance Epistemic closure is a state where an information system (individual or group) ceases to be self-correcting. Opposing data is not merely ignored; it is actively weaponized to reinforce the existing paradigm. The phenomena you listed are not distinct; they operate at different layers of the human-information stack. Phenomenon Layer […]
Every time someone says “that’s not just a Freudian slip” and the room laughs a little too knowingly, everyone is quoting — without realizing it — a book that’s now 125 years old. Sigmund Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) is where the whole idea of the Freudian slip actually comes from, and it’s […]
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Kant thinks the limit on reason is fixed and can be drawn once and for all. Hegel thinks the act of drawing it already breaks it. Kant’s categories — causality, substance, unity, and so on — only produce genuine cognition when applied to something given in sensible intuition. That’s the whole architecture of the first […]
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When people think of existentialism, the names that usually come to mind are Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Sartre. Yet Walter Kaufmann, one of the twentieth century’s foremost interpreters of the movement, begins the story somewhere unexpected—with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. In the opening essay of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Kaufmann makes a striking […]
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One kills oneself because life is not worth living; that is certainly a truth, yet an unfruitful one because it is a truism. But does that insult to existence, that flat denial in which it is plunged, come from the fact that it has no meaning?
My advice to you: if you’re sane yet and love peace of mind, then stay away from that hell. I went there because it’s text-based largely & my logic was that if people write, then it would be better than those cringe reel shorts anyway. Also, every major actor, politician or scholar is there, so […]
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