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The Myth of Pure Evil - Magical Realist - Jul 24, 2026
Insightful little clip of Rainn Wilson explaining one of the biggest delusions of our time:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/25404228045941449
RE: The Myth of Pure Evil - C C - Jul 25, 2026
(Jul 24, 2026 10:17 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Insightful little clip of Rainn Wilson explaining one of the biggest delusions of our time:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/25404228045941449
Ultimately, MOPE boils down to frugalness or laziness. Humans aren't LLMs that can analyze all the vast details of an unruly concept within mere seconds or micro-seconds. And in the real-world one must often make decisions fast, not defer to days of uncertainty and hesitancy. Discerning complexity in rivals (even in the home team) takes time and effort, and it's just easier to interpret Brand-X in simple packages of unadulterated homogeneous content.
And the limitations of everyday conversational language do not accommodate large file sizes for exporting a torturous picture of Brand-X to others anyway, even if one could hold it or was holding it mentally.
RE: The Myth of Pure Evil - Magical Realist - Jul 26, 2026
Hence the oversimplifying labels like terrorist or fascist or leftist or illegal alien or radical or subversive---categorical abstractions that permit automatic moral condemnation if not imprisonment and elimination. Not only do we speak now in 10 second prepackaged sound bites, we also think in them too.
RE: The Myth of Pure Evil - Syne - Jul 26, 2026
(10 hours ago)Magical Realist Wrote: Hence the oversimplifying labels like terrorist or fascist or leftist or illegal alien or radical or subversive---categorical abstractions that permit automatic moral condemnation if not imprisonment and elimination. Not only do we speak now in 10 second prepackaged sound bites, we also think in them too.
Or:
(Jul 23, 2026 09:48 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: MAGA
(Jul 24, 2026 04:13 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: MAGA incels.
(Jul 22, 2026 08:59 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: MAGA phobes
(Jan 7, 2026 08:21 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: trigger-happy fascist goons9_9
Where "illegal alien" is a legal term, "terrorist" denotes actual violent actions or plans, etc..
RE: The Myth of Pure Evil - Magical Realist - Jul 26, 2026
MAGA and incels are terms used by such people to name themselves. Homophobic is a psychiatric term. And fascist in this case is adjective describing a kind of behavior. And "terrorist" is also a legal term used by the govt to justify killing without arrest or trial. Anything else?
RE: The Myth of Pure Evil - Syne - Jul 26, 2026
Those are examples of you using them as blankets terms to "permit automatic moral condemnation", not people labeling themselves. You can't diagnosis psychiatric ailments without a clinical evaluation. And fascism has a definition you ignore, again, to "permit automatic moral condemnation." Yes, "terrorist" is a legal term, which you're misconstruing to, again, "permit automatic moral condemnation."
Hypocrite. 9_9