Always enjoy these New Discourses articles so sharing it here in case you've never encountered them before. A bit wordy but they're trying to pin down and explain the pathologies that are causing our current predicament in academia so the type of language is required.
I find it's useful to remind ourselves from time to time that our ideological enemies are living through 'the looking glass', that is to say they've been maneuvered into a position that causes them to misinterpret reality and they behave the way they do because they are acting on false evidence.
Extract -
"It must be observed that people who accept pseudo-realities as though they are “real” are no longer normal people. They perceive pseudo-reality in place of reality, and the more thoroughly they take on this delusional position, the more functional psychopathy they necessarily exhibit and thus the less normal they become."
Always enjoy these New Discourses articles so sharing it here in case you've never encountered them before. A bit wordy but they're trying to pin down and explain the pathologies that are causing our current predicament in academia so the type of language is required.
I find it's useful to remind ourselves from time to time that our ideological enemies are living through 'the looking glass', that is to say they've been maneuvered into a position that causes them to misinterpret reality and they behave the way they do because they are acting on false evidence.
Extract -
"It must be observed that people who accept pseudo-realities as though they are “real” are no longer normal people. They perceive pseudo-reality in place of reality, and the more thoroughly they take on this delusional position, the more functional psychopathy they necessarily exhibit and thus the less normal they become."
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