Yes there is mimetic pressure to conform. I see it in my social peers who seem nervous about heterodoxy in any respect.
Most people it seems are just trained seals. Me? I just lose “friends” with my opinions. Friends are more fungible than personal integrity. 100% worth it.
What is UMC? United Methodist Church? I know nothing about them.
Yes there is mimetic pressure to conform. I see it in my social peers who seem nervous about heterodoxy in any respect.
Most people it seems are just trained seals. Me? I just lose “friends” with my opinions. Friends are more fungible than personal integrity. 100% worth it.
What is UMC? United Methodist Church? I know nothing about them.
Your second point kind of flew over my head. I’m not for shaming either and all for increased sexual education. But I think I’m missing something...
"Yes there is mimetic pressure to conform. I see it in my social peers who seem nervous about heterodoxy in any respect."
In an experiment, a person who didn't know he was the experimental subject entered a waiting room full of people quietly sitting. Suddenly everyone took off their jackets. The subject waited a moment, not sure what was going on, and took off his jacket too. Then they all took off shirts, again not exchanging a word. The subject didn't wait so long this time.
As you might expect, before long everyone in the room was nearly naked. At no point did the subject ask any questions, he just did what everyone else was doing.
OK it isn't Stanley Milgram, but you'd think he would have at least spoken up.
This is one thing about humanity that has irritated me all my life. Some quirky phrase comes out and within weeks everyone is talking about reaching out, sharing, ask becomes a noun, target becomes a verb, and out of nervousness about "misgendering," the singular "they" gets used all the time.
Yes it’s really amazing how our decisions are consciously or unconsciously dictated by external, social forces. Rene Girard called them “models of desire.”
You should take a peek at Luke Burgis’ Substack page on Girard’s thought. Burgis also wrote a great book recently called “Wanting.” A good portion of the trans explosion is driven by mimicry, even though I would be accused of “hate speech” for pointing this out.
Since a statement of neutrally uncontroversial scientific fact, or even the search for scientific truth, have both been labeled "transphobia" by adherents of this mephtic little cult, I really don't give a pooty about what they might call "hate speech" anymore.
Yes there is mimetic pressure to conform. I see it in my social peers who seem nervous about heterodoxy in any respect.
Most people it seems are just trained seals. Me? I just lose “friends” with my opinions. Friends are more fungible than personal integrity. 100% worth it.
What is UMC? United Methodist Church? I know nothing about them.
Your second point kind of flew over my head. I’m not for shaming either and all for increased sexual education. But I think I’m missing something...
"Yes there is mimetic pressure to conform. I see it in my social peers who seem nervous about heterodoxy in any respect."
In an experiment, a person who didn't know he was the experimental subject entered a waiting room full of people quietly sitting. Suddenly everyone took off their jackets. The subject waited a moment, not sure what was going on, and took off his jacket too. Then they all took off shirts, again not exchanging a word. The subject didn't wait so long this time.
As you might expect, before long everyone in the room was nearly naked. At no point did the subject ask any questions, he just did what everyone else was doing.
OK it isn't Stanley Milgram, but you'd think he would have at least spoken up.
This is one thing about humanity that has irritated me all my life. Some quirky phrase comes out and within weeks everyone is talking about reaching out, sharing, ask becomes a noun, target becomes a verb, and out of nervousness about "misgendering," the singular "they" gets used all the time.
People piss me off.
Yes it’s really amazing how our decisions are consciously or unconsciously dictated by external, social forces. Rene Girard called them “models of desire.”
You should take a peek at Luke Burgis’ Substack page on Girard’s thought. Burgis also wrote a great book recently called “Wanting.” A good portion of the trans explosion is driven by mimicry, even though I would be accused of “hate speech” for pointing this out.
Since a statement of neutrally uncontroversial scientific fact, or even the search for scientific truth, have both been labeled "transphobia" by adherents of this mephtic little cult, I really don't give a pooty about what they might call "hate speech" anymore.
LOL! You crack me up! They piss me off, too! ;-)
UMC: Upper Middle Class
I was just riffing on anti-liberal social trends. It was a nonsequitur. Sorry for the confusion. Just on my mind lately.