None of this is inevitable.

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

None of this is inevitable. None of it. There is a very small number of determined psychopaths causing all of this fuckery and they have names and addresses

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

Psychopaths

https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3mh6vizvrgk2e

[oytis@mastodon.social]

@pikesley all the religious traditions, all the philosophical traditions did not exist obviously. Thinking was invented by Freud in 1910, before it was only doing

[otfrom@functional.cafe]

@pikesley why are they so ahistorical and ignorant of literature.

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@pikesley At first look, I thought this guy was wearing a shirt that read "You don't have any"

[reay@beige.party]

@pikesley What utter bullshit.

First off, he’s wrong about how long introspection has been around. Let’s start with the Buddhist practices of looking inward to better understand yourself, for just one example.

Secondly, arguing that something isn’t worth doing entirely because it’s a more modern concept is objectively ridiculous. If that were genuinely his reasoning for how he chooses to live, he wouldn’t accept America as a concept, wouldn’t use automobiles, and would never have employed a computer or telephone.

Yet another billionaire who thinks what he says is de facto correct, let alone valuable.

[mikal@sfba.social]

@reay @pikesley

"let alone valuable" is they key here. It is an almost universal quality of billionaire tech bros that they universalize their success in one field or their otherwise limited domain expertise to all of life.

Musk suddenly thinking he is an underwater cave rescue expert is maybe the most memorable example.

[ratfactor@mastodon.art]

@pikesley I know I shouldn't be shocked anymore, but creatures like Andreessen still find new ways to blow my mind. "Know thyself" was so important that it was inscribed in stone in Delphi 2,500 years ago. I thought these guys were super into Western Culture.