February 2012
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#textsfromlastnight
2:37 AM There’s a great quote about how Nietzsche was never lonely like everyone thinks he was. I don’t think what he ever wanted was love, I think he just wanted respite from alienation. 2:38 AM I said this. I might be wasted. Whoops. said one rational misanthrope to another
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I am not of this world,
I never belonged to it.
There are a million stories taking place around me, none of which I have any place in. Closest I’ve come is to have borne direct witness to some (one or two), which as you can imagine has a nasty way of intensifying alienation.
It’s like being the best friend of a main character within the nuclear cast of a sitcom: where, for the purpose of keeping the...
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Expanded
To back-track to the beginning, the purpose of the first flow chart was to demonstrate the staggering importance of race in basic attraction, defined in terms of group membership. Without necessarily addressing how race fits into the factors-of-attraction framework. Which, to recap, is the empirically substantiated knowledge from psychology that the primary determinants of attraction (platonic...
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Getting personal
Installment number five: Outgroup hostility.
The thing about ingroup bias is that it contributes more to favorable thinking about your ingroup than active negative thinking about outgroups. Not even the most cohesive and homogenous group prefers to actively denigrate “others” in lieu of simply ignoring them and carrying about in their own insular circle-jerk land. Hostility toward...
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what happens when Jane is in our ingroup
I forgot to explore one last possibility in my last post there.
What if Jane is not an other? What if she belongs to your ingroup? It’s not that you simply ask yourself whether you’re interested in associating with her and that’s the end of that.
So to explore this hypothetical question using the example from the previous installment, suppose we are still white. But now Jane...
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Expounding a bit more on colorblindness
So as I was starting to insinuate in my last post, there were two discrete types of colorblindness peddled by the pc-liberals of the ’90s; one that is quite reasonable and another that’s outright ludicrous in its conception. Let me go into this in further depth, hopefully in a way that brings some coherence and unity to this racket I’ve been making about race perception.
Racial...
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a comparison: when no otherization takes place
Colorblind doesn’t mean bleeding-heartedly PC, it just means this. It’s simply that there is no otherization taking place. When I talk of colorblindness I don’t mean colorblindness as a political message, or colorblindness exaggerated to absurdity to that end. I certainly don’t mean ’90s social propaganda colorblind, like the Disney re-make of Cinderella from 1997...
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Otherization
To be specific, we mean racial ingroup and outgroup. Because on the broad social level, ingroup or outgroup membership is determined along the lines of race. Race is the most salient social category. It frequently takes precedence over physical attractiveness and in most contexts surmounts all other social categories, especially when other factors — such as age — are fairly...