Recent content by Anemoia

My first reaction to this was that being upset at a 'copycat' is not terribly legitimate from a moral point of view. You believe that you have ownership and 'possession' over certain interests, aesthetics, combinations thereof, &c., and wish to gatekeep these from others. If this doesn't cross...

If I like someone romantically, it's not long before I just ask them on a date, and very straightforwardly. I think your only way through here is just to make it known to him that you like him romantically, otherwise you'll be stuck in this crush forever. With acceptance or rejection the...

Are you aware that you only communicate your awareness of your family's interests through parentheses? This seems to flag something concerning here: that your family is parenthetical to you; they are secondary, subordinate to your interests, an afterthought. For a neutral reader, I think all of...

I don't think it can be regarded as 'imaginary' when it has genuine real-world consequences for them.

I tend to find arguments in favour of eugenics and 'concerns' pointing in that direction rather unsubtle and biased by reasoning that lies on very unstable ground. I think it's worth pointing out that group selection operates on a scale and in a way that people often fail to perceive. Societies...

Well I was most interested in this idea of 'depth' that you establish with the terms 'social-ego, cultural-shadow, historical unconscious, and collective unconscious', so I was expecting something along the lines of 'Christianity doesn't address the European "shadow" in the way that paganism...

I was expecting an answer about why Christianity doesn't touch on those levels of the 'cultural conscious' that you identified ('social-ego, cultural-shadow, historical unconscious, and collective unconscious'), but I don't think you've provided an answer to that. I'm not sure where...

Why doesn't it 'go as deep'?

I'd be happy to leave it at that, if only I knew why I'd been confused for a woman in her 20s, lol.

This is not a matter of opinion, unfortunately, and your argument here is a non sequitur. The existence of psychopaths does not preclude the existence of compassion. I'm not quite sure how you can present this as a serious argument.

I don't think they have to bring anything to the table to benefit from the human instinct to protect them at all costs. The 'compact' between the sexes is not subject to contract lawyers and intense scrutiny, it is something tuned over the span of evolutionary time. Take the 'missing white...

I see. These are legitimate reasons, I suppose, because you've directly suffered the harm caused by certain approaches towards life. But nonetheless what you're objecting to here isn't 'introversion', as such, but something else. I'm not sure what you'd call it, but it has very little to do...

Why is there a hyper-fixation with the positive valuation of normativeness here? And a corresponding denigration of non-normative behaviours and personalities? @slant you seem to make these valuations upon the axiom that extroversion is 'functional' for societies, and introversion is not, but...

I think this is true in at least some cases, or appears simultaneously with the other kinds and manifestations of 'introversion' (such as its well-established neurology). However there's a problem in imagining social interaction to be a largely competence-based activity, where we can do it...

I think that yes, men are falling behind. One thing that's interesting to me is how this is tolerable to society and individuals to the same extent that human beings are hard-wired to protect women and expect service and sacrifice of men. I think that the fundamental biological imperative of...