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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

They view the world at extremely low resolution.

They think all of this is not only connected, but so connected as to be the same thing:

  • oil industry
  • capitalism
  • western civilization
  • great european art

Basically there’s a particular type of philosophical disorder where a person has no “weighting dropoff” in the connections between their things. Every relationship has 100% weight, so if A, B, C, and D are connected in some way then A is D and you can fight A by fighting D.

I don’t know if there’s a term for this, but it’s basically like the zero-signal-degradation manner of reasoning about causality.

[-] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I can see modern art and stuff being connected to capitalism, but how do you see Stonehenge factor in?

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