lumpentroll posted:

nice edited snipe you piece of poo poo

swimsuit posted:

my edit was bad and fail but you still have 8 pages worth of posts in the current trmup thread

swimsuit posted:

my edit was bad and fail but you still have 8 pages worth of posts in the current trmup thread

fart simpson posted:

shameful

tokin opposition posted:

The only viable leftist tendency is post modern neo Marxism, bimbofication is the dialectic between the organic body and inorganic matter combining to produce big busty lesbians who support BDS and pegging the rich ironically.

Larry Parrish posted:

Have you guys noticed that every mod posts on the same obnoxious nerd tone of voice. I remember Video Games not posting like that until they got tapped to mod Games and suddenly always used their shift key and also never posted in imp zone again. So the only question is, do they only make sex criminals mods or is that tendency downloaded in with the whiny loser grammar package.

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Fluffdaddy posted:

I don't need to explain myself.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

actually celot if you do return to read this: please get a copy of ordinary men: reserve police battalion 101 to see that “sane” people can quite easily do monstrous things

brugroffil posted:

I'm sorry but clearly they were just insane. No further analysis is needed or even possible.






Real good and terrifying book though

lumpentroll posted:

immediately resorting to doxxing and gangstalking

AnimeIsTrash posted:

How does it feel having a smooth brain?

fart simpson posted:

aren’t you just off a probe for this euphemism garbage. cspam is not the forum to call people unintelligent.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

The forum cops are just upset because we know the real reason they ride the short bus.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

AnimeIsTrash posted:

What are some good books/articles about Islamic socialism/communism?

AnimeIsTrash posted:

The forum cops are just upset because we know the real reason they ride the short bus.

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Bumping this question again.

fart simpson posted:

im glad we don’t have to put up with this mod sass anymore, the most serious of forums crimes

tokin opposition posted:

1. there's literally long block quotes of marx here that are difficult to disinguish between her (judith butler) and him.

2. i am through the first post and immediately regretted pledging to read the whole thing

3. marx was very smart

Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

glen wallis posted:

Who can blame people for wanting to create some ease and peace for themselves? Not me! I can say two things about the issue you raise. One has to do with the difference between *mindfulness* and *Mindfulness*. The other has to do with the intended audience for the SNB critique of the latter, *Mindfulness*.

I am not critical of *mindfulness*, with lower case *m*. I am critical of *Mindfulness*, with upper case *M*. What’s the difference? I understand *mindfulness* to index a simple (if not necessarily *easy*) cognitive function. At the risk of wading into a conceptual mire here, I will say that this function involves a kind of self-aware meta-cognition: I can *reflect* *on* my subjective experience; I can *attend to* thinking, feeling, etc. states or processes. If the development of *this* ability is what helped you, then we are in complete accord. In fact, I would even want this to be an element in the practice that I mentioned to AbbeyStrict above. But I would want to extend it to the social sphere? Why? Because placed in a materialist framework, *mindfulness* ultimately enhances awareness not merely of “subjective experience” but of “social experience.” That is, what this framework wants to clarify is that my “own” experience is but the existential vortex where the social meets me, my body, my awareness, etc. Taking this approach, how can you be sure that your anxiety wasn’t a ping of wisdom? (The truth often hurts, right? How might we view “anxiety” in light of that fact?) This is sounding much more teachy than I intend it to be. What I want to say is that *mindfulness* is a useful cognitive function in that it allows us to gain a vantage point on experience, and so enables *reflection*. How can that not be a good thing? Here’s how—

When *mindfulness* becomes the motherlode in an ideology that serves the neoliberal corporatocracy of Western capitalism. The name of this ideology is *Mindfulness*. It is, of course, too much to run through my argument here. I treat it in the first chapter of my new book under the subheading “Neoliberal subjects are us, wise and well.” It is not an idiosyncratic theory. Plenty of other people are making the case these days as well. If you look into the matter, I am confident that you will discover significant evidence of an apparently unintended confluence between our reigning economic-political system and the ideology that is Mindfulness. If you think that consumer capitalism is the way for humanity to go, then you will not, of course, see this confluence as a problem. If you believe that capitalism lies at the heart of our unending catastrophe, you will. The fact that Mindfulness shields its covert ideological force behind the language of, as you put it, the “therapeutic tool,” is deeply problematic, to say the least. But the real danger lies in the precise features of its ideology. Whatever else it might be, at its heart it is an ideology of individualized self-soothing. I quoted Simon Critchley in my answer to another question. It applies here as well. Critchley terms what I am calling Mindfulness (the ideology) “passive nihilism.” He writes: “In the face of the increasing brutality of reality, the passive nihilist tries to achieve a mystical stillness, calm contemplation: ‘European Buddhism.’ In a world that is all too rapidly blowing itself to pieces, the passive nihilist closes his eyes and makes himself into an island.” One way to see ideological machinations explicitly at work in *Mindfulness*, the ideology, is to ask why *mindfulness*, the simple cognitive operation, is not put in the service of a robust and courageous social engagement. Why does *Mindfulness* encode *mindfulness* with the particular values that it does, and not others? Why does is present the particular inventory that it does of permissible/impermissible emotions, proper/improper ways of speaking, rules of decorum and comportment, and so on? The answer seems clear to me: because *Mindfulness* is an ideological, subject-forming framing of *mindfulness*. And it happens to be one that thrills the likes of the right-wing libertarian Koch brothers, the corporate-capitalist Davos crowd, and every CHO (Chief Happiness Officer) from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.

Finally, my critique is not intended for people who want to develop mindfulness. It is intended for the gatekeepers of the Ideological Mindfulness Apparatus. Not that these “thought-leaders” read anything I write, or, if they do, ever admit it or actually engage with me. But maybe people who are about to enter into the Apparatus will benefit from considering my critique. Think of a critique of big pharma. On an individual level, maybe antidepressants can alleviate some pain. Maybe. I don’t know. The research is all over the place. But let’s say they can. Is it not still valuable to critique the Ideological Therapy Apparatus, the elements within our culture that serve up antidepressants as a remedy *not* for the rampant capitalist Golem that arguably creates the conditions for depression, but for the depressed individual? Whatever else we see in therapy and antidepressants, such a critique would also reveal the ways in which they interact with and serve the dominant structures of the control society. Similar arguments can be made for mass consumption (we have to buy poo poo, but…), the auto industry (we have to drive cars, but…), the culture industry (watch Netflix for fun, but…) education, and so much more. So, my critique of Mindfulness goes beyond individual application and looks at the broader social ramifications.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"mindfulness" is just some poo poo white people made up. yeah I do mindfulness all the time, it's called CONCENTRATING

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"mindfulness" is just some poo poo white people made up. yeah I do mindfulness all the time, it's called CONCENTRATING

Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

Raskolnikov38 posted:

have breathing exercises/thoughtfulness ever helped anyone ever? none of that poo poo has ever reduced my anxiety a single iota

indigi posted:

I never imagined smoothbrained as a synonym for the r word, just a synonym for willfully ignorant, based on the idea that learning/thinking is what gives your brain wrinkles so if you never want to learn your brain will be smooth. I always conceived of it as a willful choice rather than a synonym for a learning disorder or mental deficiency