This honestly explains a lot.

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@FluffyBunnikins @georgetakei @GreatDismal

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@georgetakei A 2021 study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7935085/ measuring political attitudes correlating with damage to different sections of the brain found
"...people with frontal lesions held more conservative (or less liberal) beliefs than those with anterior temporal lobe lesions or no lesions. Additional analyses predicting ideology by extent of damage provided convergent evidence that greater damage in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—but not the amygdala—was associated with greater conservatism."

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@georgetakei The prefrontal cortex is the 'newest' part of the brain that separates us from apes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499919/ is "[o]ne of the last places in the brain to mature [and] is thought of as the 'personality center' and is the cortical region that makes us uniquely human."

Billionaires are sub-humans. They lack the higher functions that separate us from apes. They don't care about words or ethics. They lack imagination completely. They are fundamentally LESS THAN US.

[jakekb@mastodon.social]

@georgetakei I am certain he will have a lot of introspection when walking up the stairs to the guillotine.

[adventure_tense@mapstodon.space]

@georgetakei I'm a bit surprised Mark didn't refer to Introspection as "woke". :-/

[georgetakei@universeodon.com]

@tonwood #Deep

[spanghero@ioc.exchange]

@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei Money making money means that have no need to be introspective, assuming they are even capable of it. They've one at capitalism so we should put that one away, get another game out with a very different way of keeping score; one that doesn't reward concentrating/hording counters

[electric_gumball@mastodon.social]

@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei
No introspection, no empathy, no humanity.

[marypcbuk@hachyderm.io]

@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei it's ironic that Andreesen picked '400 years ago' as his example: the beginning of the age of reason, the era of Descartes and Leibniz. It's beyond ignorance and into somekind of willful denial of history.

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei

They probably have inner lives, who knows, probably somewhat shrunken and dried out by being denied the water of empathy.

But they will argue any nonsense to devalue other people's humanity in case it stops them getting what they want, and they know what the response would be to "I have an inner life because I'm a special boy who was granted one when I got my first million, but poor people don't".

So they come to straight up denying that anyone has a mind.

[baishen@mastodon.online]

@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei I read an article/study about how the more money someone has the more detached from reality and people they get. Introspection would require them to consider that they're flawed or that other people are actual people and not NPCs in their game of life.

<Ten dollar banana meme>
<Principal Skinner wrong meme>

[acb@mastodon.social]

@ApostateEnglishman @cstross @georgetakei Various strains of “rationalism” and neoliberal-adjacent thought valorise “high decoupling”: the ability to rationally do long-term cost-benefit calculations without being overwhelmed by the enormity of one’s immediate actions. Perhaps the apex of this is decoupling from any inner life at all?