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14474552 No.14474552 [Reply] [Original]

Communication is just a tool to manipulate others into doing what you want.
When you read you voluntarily subject yourself to the influence of someone else.

>> No.14474646

Damn I'll never read again

>> No.14474692

Which is why you pick authors who challenge you to think better

>> No.14474704

>>14474552
what if they want to influence you to learn more knowledge or see a new viewpoint?

>> No.14474707

>>14474692
what defines "thinking better"?

>> No.14474712

>>14474552
Scale this back to something less involved with ego and you realize any stimuli is manipulation. Congratulations, you now understand Fanged Noumena.

>> No.14474728

This is a projection, communication is a way to connect with others and explore ideas.

>> No.14474794

>>14474552
word is a child of love and forms a path to truth

>> No.14474883

>>14474552
I've been thinking about what is rotten about the internet specifically and I came to a realization: online discourse is a feminine trait.

Women in developed cultures were forbidden physical action when provoked to anger. They developed a whole culture of emotional harm to take the place of violence and physical domination. Because the construct was missing a vital component the output was neurotic and spread instability. The crowning achievement of this construct was the salon. The ideas birthed in the salon follow the same thread as modern sjw thought. Some ideas were very valuable, but all worked to subvert established societal structure. The salons directly contributed to the end of the reign of kings.

The internet is a continuation of the same construct. Now there is no need for society to impose a norm of nonviolence as the medium itself removes the threat of violence by removing physical interaction altogether! Communication without the threat of violence is feminine. We should not be surprised that all internet communication seems to trend toward hate and anger because the physicality of communication is absent. The spectre of violence repressed has poisoned the entire well.

We need to bring physical competition and play back into society for both sexes. The kids need to learn how to grapple with each other for conflict resolution and respect building. It's an even enough playing field early on and by the time the physical gap kicks in it turns into foreplay.

>> No.14474901

>>14474552
>implying facts are subjective
sure their perspective influences their writing but so long as its a decent text the information im taking from it is well worth it

>> No.14474903

>>14474883
You’re presupposing all discourse is a result of emotion, which is retarded and bugman status.

>> No.14474925

>>14474552
It's also a tool to say no, etc.
Mimesis isn't a tool, anon. It's social life at all levels.

>> No.14474937

>>14474552
DUCK!

>> No.14474953

>>14474552
This is precisely why you don't read post-modernists, because they actually believe this and act upon it.

>> No.14475421

>>14474903
Explain how you came to that conclusion from what I wrote. I'm genuinely confused. I'm asserting communication with the absence of threat of violence or physical consequence is incomplete and comparable to the norm for western women throughout history.

>> No.14475884

>>14474552
>When you read you voluntarily subject yourself to the influence of someone else.
Yeah fucking obviously, that's a good thing.

>> No.14476729

>>14475421
>Women in developed cultures were forbidden physical action when provoked to anger
You developed your whole argument off of this premise, which is an assumption when applied wholesale to all online discourse.

>> No.14476742

>>14475884
Actually, no. You should only read supplementary material to what you have already intuitively had a grasp upon. Otherwise you’re just filling your head with unearned knowledge that makes you more harmful then wise. The unaware “learner” really succumbs to pitfalls at a steady pace. They don’t know what they are looking for and are often led astray, not just by themselves, but authors with malicious intentions.

>> No.14476749

>>14474712
high IQ post

>> No.14476758

>>14474883
Read Plato