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What about the people asked to point to regions of the world?
If only to put TM’s mind to rest it’s worth pointing out that one of the most popular online games during the pandemic was one called “Geoguessr”. Players are presented at random with Google Maps photographs from all over the world and then have to pinpoint them on a map.
There are 50 million people registered on this game.
If only everyone was as intelligent, cultured and brave (and possibly as good looking) as TM, we’d have socialism tomorrow!
So your approach to social research is to watch funny videos on YouTube? And then you think it’s the other people that are dumb?
There must be plenty of new anti-war music, you’re just not looking for it. Here’s an example from 12 years ago.
And one against the first Gulf War
But don’t we already have too many music threads?
Moral judgements trying to pass as “science” if you ask me. I’ll tell my friend they might be neurotic.
I used to love Wilhelm Reich in my teenage years. “Mass Psychology of Fascism” may have been one of the first places I read about socialism. And “Listen Little Man” is a great rant.
But as I grew older and learnt about more things, and especially as I got better at critical thinking and philosophy, I just realised more and more how most of this was just pseudo-science and assertions that don’t really stand up.
It’s a shame Reich re-wrote his early books to incorporate his later theories. I wonder what the first edition of Mass Psychology was like. I don’t think it has been translated into English?
And Reich also pointed out that rabid promiscuity and an obsession with sex are also signs of neurosis.
Did he give any indication of numbers here? Or is moderately promiscuous okay? Asking for a friend.
The difficulty with Freud’s theory is that it offers us entities (for example repressed unconscious conflicts), which are said to be the unobservable causes of certain forms of behavior But there are no correspondence rules for these alleged causes—they cannot be identified except by reference to the behavior which they are said to cause (that is, the analyst does not demonstratively assert: “This is the unconscious cause, and that is its behavioral effect;” rather he asserts: “This is the behavior, therefore its unconscious cause must exist”), and this does raise serious doubts as to whether Freud’s theory offers us genuine causal explanations at all.
Humans being the only animals which have divorced themselves from the free and natural flow of the sex instinct.
A nice story, but how would you go about proving (or disproving) it?
If someone could explain to me the levels of fear, hatred, sadism, violence and racism that brought about the holocaust and many other terrible political phenomena better than the Marxian synthesis with the theory of the death instinct then let me know.
Can you explain what extra explanatory power adding an ahistorical “death instinct” adds to explanations of these events?
If the “death instinct” is something that is always there, how does invoking it help explain the unique history of the 20th century?
Just out of interest, has anyone claimed that a “death instinct” is something that functions in other animals too? If so, what observed behaviours were they using to deduce its existence?
Don’t recall reading that article before. Thanks. That kind of music has been some kind of influence in my life, though I find all the references to ‘Jah’ and ‘Haile Sellasie’ quite depressing.
I like Adorno’s commentary on popular music and politics, but perhaps he was overegging it:
