This response I respect.
I don’t need a “safe space” free from negativity — f*ck that.
I didn’t exactly mean that, but you’re still giving some good wisdom and hard truths that I respect hearing. (On the life stuff)
On the posting memes and Tweets — it’s a different way of projecting information.
To truly debate you and prove my points — which I can always do — that takes a lot of time.
And my free time for writing has gone down.
“To truly debate you and prove my points — which I can always do — that takes a lot of time. ”
That sounds a whole lot like the very definition of intellectual laziness. Let’s put it this way...You certainly HAVEN’T shown me (and I would contend anyone here) that you ACTUALLY can debate me (or anyone else) OR prove your points. When cornered away from the security of spamming your 4Chan, /pol/, red pill amalgam narrative and into defending your points, you routinely bail on the debate. You’re gonna have to prove that you are...as you contend...a good intellectual match to challenge me.
While pointing out that I’m actually a pretty low intellectual bar to be challenging yourself to (you should aspire to be better than that), you haven’t come close to proving even that at this time. You never will by continuing with your spamming ways.
Sounds like you intend to continue down this path because you are busy....because it’s hard...because it takes time....because it’s hard to think for yourself. Guess what? I’ve got a wife...kids...career....hobbies...a life wholly separate from this board too. If it’s gonna take hours and hours of writing to respond to these thoughts I dash off on the fly, maybe we aren’t as good of an intellectual match as you think. Maybe cutting and pasting is all you really are capable of doing. That would be disappointing, but at this point it’s a possibility that I have to seriously consider because that is where your actions so far have led me.
Cutting and pasting other people’s memes and tweets is a way of projecting OTHER PEOPLE’S information...someone else’s narrative. When you do it, you are literally adopting/rebroadcasting a narrative metaphorically spoonfed to you...no analysis, no research, no critical reasoning...just rebroadcasting.
The same way you contend social media has made women unhappier (or something like that, it’s hard to express a clear coherent idea in a meme or 240 characters), I contend that social media has generated a group of 4Chan hanging, PePE obsessed zombies who have convinced themselves that are intellectual giants and free thinkers who are part of an elite few that know “the truth”. In fact, those folks are unquestioningly rebroadcasting and regurgitating a very specificly common narrative. The red pill theories and memes you cut and paste are not a sign you are willing to do the hard work and open eyed inquiries in an effort to discover your truth for yourself. It’s an admission that you have swallowed and are aping a different narrative fed to you on now the world works...the bluest of blue pills. Twitter and Facebook and all of it has dumbed down the world, IMO.
You have become that which you mock/hate/decry...a true blue, dyed in the wool, blue piller.