Bryter posted:

"left forum" is what I hope hamprince has done every time I log on to this website

Plutonis posted:

Annual Prophet posted:

enver was right

Fallen Hamprince posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDUY91jrx4

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDUY91jrx4

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDUY91jrx4

bedpan posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWO7atzL8i4

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDUY91jrx4

quote:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-at-the-end-of-history/

Sigmund Freud conceived of the superego as a normative instrument, but it is better understood as a censorious machine. Its strictures, after all, do not come from some interior wellspring; it is not a moral imagination. The rules — and they are rules, nothing more — are received from outside, then internalized and enforced. The superego, even in Freud, does not direct the ego toward high principle or even a particular sensitivity to injustice. “The super-ego can be thought of as a type of conscience that punishes misbehavior with feelings of guilt,” Freud wrote in Introduction to Psychoanalysis. When a transgression is detected, the superego inflicts a psychic wound. It is not a conscience so much as a fully automated priest. The mechanism is simple: sin goes in, censure comes out. Slip up too much and you’re excommunicated.

I am not qualified to make, nor do I want to make, any claims about the psychological character of any particular American liberal. And I am not at all convinced that Freudian psychoanalysis constitutes the most useful way to do so, in any case. But the superego as a metaphor for the collective operation of the liberal world order throws a great deal of much-needed light on what we are observing in the wake of the 2016 election. When history is meant to be over and a single political faction begins to conceive of itself as the permanent manager of a static world, then that faction ceases to be political in the ordinary sense. Politics, in its classic incarnation, is the art of deriving an is from an ought; the point, as Marx famously said, is not to describe the world but to change it. But if the world is as it ought to be already and the essential task is to maintain it — that is, to police the circumscribed boundaries of permissible behavior and ideas — then those tasked with that maintenance must conceive of themselves as acting above politics itself. They become a superego, beyond the libidinal whims of any faction and dedicated not to some alternative vision of the world but to resisting all impulse toward alternatives. Possibility goes in, correction comes out. The End of History suggests a perfectly healthy mind; thus, any attempt to alter this situation is dangerous. But the trouble with superegos is that, once they have taken on this role, they cannot cease to perform it. When the id can be kept in control, all is well. But when it can’t, then the result is not the superego’s surrender — it is repetitious, manic dysfunction. It becomes the blathering superego at the end of history.

Top City Homo posted:

grow hard as Jimmy "Gulag the Kulaks" Dore radicalizes before your very eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4sKLS9Wr8

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

There's a new article in the LA Review of Books called "The Blathering Superego at the End of History" that's a savage must-read.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Dore is still a lib, but goddamn I love him sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43IDnRx_OFw

Vermain posted:

i'm still waiting for the inevitable day that krugman finally has an epiphany and posts in his blog about how marx was right because he keeps getting so drat close and then pivoting away at the last second

Top City Homo posted:

grow hard as Jimmy "Gulag the Kulaks" Dore radicalizes before your very eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4sKLS9Wr8

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

No.

Weeping Wound posted:

trump thread asked about Redneck Revolt

what's your take?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Redneck Revolt rules. Why, do they think it's bad for some reason?

Weeping Wound posted:

got the wrong idea, called it white supremacist

Larry Parrish posted:

Redneck revolt makes me sad because all the chapters are in LA and San Diego. There are no rednecks there.

Aliquid posted:

krugman columns in Fall '08 radicalized me from left-Dem toward Literal Stalinism

hamprince is being intentionally disingenuous and has been for a long time and deserves to be evicted from his loving posting vacation home