#TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #TheoryPhysicalismOrMaterialism

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Supplementary: #WebsiteDoubleDownNewsGeorgeMonbiot https://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/ #TheoryCognitiveBiasSelfAttribution i.e. https://www.simplimba.com/self-attribution-bias/ #ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBias #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionEverydayPeopleEveryman #ReasoningFallacySelfServingAttributionBias

#MetaphorVersusConservativesLiberals / #MetaphorVersusSocialismCapitalism #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC #MetaphorParasiteLazy #TheoryIndividualismUtilitarian i.e. http://facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/archive/2008/soci235/bellah.htm

"The Communist Cycle
Establish a new communist utopia
Say it wasn't 'real communism'
Rob or kill the successful
Starve to death
Force the rest to work for free
Run out of food" #PoliticsCommunism #NarrativeUtopia #IRLHistoricalFigureKarlMarx

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Addendum: surely, more a characterisation of #PoliticsAuthoritarianism mixed with #PhenomnCorruption? The point: "Rob or kill the successful" seems to point to the #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype i.e. that 'being successful' is wholly attributable to the deeds of an individual (and has nothing to do with their circumstance). #TheoryCognitiveBiasSelfAttribution

#VlogBoldFacedTruthDavidMedina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_EI7ffmjy0&t=2992s #IRLAuthorHeidiStJohn #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype / #TheoryIndividualismHeroic / #TheoryIndividualismSolipsism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

#IRLHistoricalFigureRosaParks #IRLSportspersonArthurAshe #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #IRLHistoricalFigureAlbertEinstein #IRLReligiousLeaderDalaiLama #IRLHistoricalFigureNelsonMandela #IRLHistoricalFigureMahatmaGandhi #IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass #IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK

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#OrgClassifPPUKConservativesPritiPatel #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDMGTPaulDacre #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyNigelFarage #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesJacobReesMogg

#IRLHistoricalFigureFrancoisMarieArouetAKAVoltaire

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Context: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/11/08/absurdities/

#IRLPhilosopherFriedrichNietzsche

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Context: "This sounds like a loose paraphrase of the sense of Daybreak aph. 329 (see also the first half of aph. 542, and the parallel passage in Genealogy of Morals). The necessity of illusions is also the major theme of 'Truth and Lie'.
I agree with the earlier comment that, if it has any relation to a particular passage at all, it is a bad paraphrase! It's hard to explain exactly but if you even just skim the relevant passages in Morgenröthe or 'Truth and Lie' you'll see that when he's discussing the sturdiness of illusions he is often discussing the important functions they serve and when he is discussing the pursuit of truth he is often treating it as the product of illusions! So both halves of this quotation sound like something Nietzsche would say (except not in his style...) but not when combined." https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/56290 #1896_OnTruthAndLiesInAnExtraMoralSense #MetaphorVersusTruthIllusion

#IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass #1857_

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Context: #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesDavidBlight "But in the same way that Abraham Lincoln has become 'everybody's grandfather,' in the words of the historian David Donald, the one American figure who could be adopted by every part of the political spectrum, Douglass is also appropriated broadly, especially by the American right. ...
On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made -- he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature. But without many people, especially women (his grandmother, two wives, a daughter and countless abolitionist women who supported his career) as well as male mentors, both white and black, he would not have survived and become Douglass. In private, he easily admitted his reliance on friends and associates, and he believed in a theory of history rooted in the Old Testament, in the Exodus story, in collective liberation by God and by events.
In 'Self-Made Man,' a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise. The radical abolitionist who risked all to use words and politics to free an entire people from slavery was, to Mr. Sandefur, only 'a radical for individualism' and never concerned with 'the interests of the collective.'
To believe that, one has to ignore most of Douglass's career, especially his life as an abolitionist, his ferocious attacks on the poison of racism and his brilliant analysis of how lynching emerged from the evils of white supremacy. Douglass believed that freedom was safe only within the state and under law.
Douglass did preach self-reliance for his fellow blacks: He argued that the freed slaves should be given their rights, protected and then 'let alone.' But he never employed that 'let alone' dictum without also demanding 'fair play,' and security against terror and discrimination. Conservatives have cherry-picked his words to advance their narrow visions of libertarianism." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/opinion/right-coopts-frederick-douglass.html #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln #IRLHistorianDavidDonald i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Herbert_Donald #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #PowerControlChattelSlaveryAbolitionism #BeliefChristianityBibleOTBookOfExodus #PoliticsCollectivism #AdvocacyUSCatoInstitute #AdvocacyUSGoldwaterInstituteTimothySandefur i.e. https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/our-team/timothy-sandefur/ #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutalityLynching #SlurWhiteSupremacy #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking #PoliticsLibertarianism

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Supplementary: #IRLHistoricalFigureBarryGoldwater #1960_TheConscienceOfAConservative
"In 1960, with publication of The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater became the leader of a national movement. Written with speechwriter Brent Bozell, the book was a statement of Goldwater's political creed. In chapters that focused on issues such as civil rights, labor relations, and the welfare state, Goldwater called for the 'utmost vigilance and care...to keep political power within its proper bounds.' The national media largely dismissed the book, but Goldwater's vision quickly gained an audience and the book became a best-seller. Today, it is considered a landmark in the development of modern conservatism." https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/barry_goldwater_of_arizona.htm #AdvocacyUSMediaResearchCenterMRCLeoBrentBozellIII https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/09/january-6-capitol-attack-son-conservative-activist-convicted #IRLPrivateCitizenLeoBrentBozellIV #2020_CapitolSiege #MagazineTheNewRepublicTNRTimothyNoah
"Brent ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative, giving wide play to his Cold War pessimism when the book became a surprise bestseller in 1960. By now, Brent had blossomed into a full-fledged reactionary. He moved to Spain and became an apologist for Franco's fascist regime. Then he moved back and lost a Maryland congressional primary race to the liberal Republican Charles Mathias. After that, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains and devoted most of the rest of his life to attacking Vatican II." https://newrepublic.com/article/161431/brent-bozell-trump-capitol-riot #IRLDictatorFranciscoFranco #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMaryland #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPCharlesMathias #BeliefChristianityDenomCatholicismSecondVaticanCouncilVaticanII

#IRLHistoricalFigureRalphWaldoEmerson

#TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #IRLDogmatistDarrenGrimes #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling #TauntWokeMob #OtheringDenialPrejudice

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Supplementary: #IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass, #1872_SelfMadeMen: "are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results." https://monadnock.net/douglass/self-made-men
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Made_Men

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Addendum: #ReasoningFallacySelfServingAttributionBias i.e. "Deflecting privilege is one part of a wider strategy we detected among today's elite to present themselves as ordinary, regular, and unspectacular. These people generally eschewed their influence, and directly counterposed their meritocratic trajectories with the stuffy aristocratic elites of the past." https://samf.substack.com/p/common-people #PoliticsStatusQuoOrdinaryDeflectingPrivilege

#MassShooting2022RobbElementarySchool #TauntIndoctrination #TauntCultureCancel #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #MetaphorWarfareGender #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #ConspiracyTheoryGrooming #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople #TauntLeftHardFar #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty

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Context: "Why more shootings lately? I suspect the increased indoctrination of kids in classes and social medias on with WOKE ideologies, CRT, cancel culture, diversity politics, racial hate, gender war, trans grooming..etc for 2 decades or more.
What MOTIVATES hate in a kid or young adult's mind to pick up a weapon to kill, starts by what's shoved into a CHILD's immature mindset to comprehend and understand.
Bad situations start with bad ideas too young for kids to understand, and worst if he or she suffers from mental illness. WE ARE looking in all the wrong places to blame that on Guns. Guns DID NOT PUT THE BAD INTENTION IN THE KIDS OR PERSON FIRST, it is what was taught or shared as an idea or an idea of hate initially.
Instead of teaching kids academic subjects (Math, Science, Technology, Geography, History..etc) ADULTS as TEACHERS fill their heads with mature problems, adult subjects, politics, all forms of sexual freedom, grooming them to pick a side from even their parent..etc.
KIDS are too young to understand or should be burdened to think about at their young age. Thus confuse them and when some has mental illness as well, THIS IS LIKELY WHAT HAPPENS AS AN ENG RESULT.
GUNS DO NOT KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. AND THEY START WITH A BAD IDEA OR INTENT. THIS IS ON THE EXTREME LEFT AND THEY HAVE MUCH TO ANSWER FOR OR THIS WILL KEEP HAPPENING.
The DEM do not care. They just want to use this shooting as an excuse to take away guns. As that is simpler to do then admit, they MIGHT BE THE REASON WHY THIS IS HAPPENING TO BEGIN WITH. THINK ABOUT IT. "

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Supplementary: "although other weapons are involved in homicide, firearms are not only the most deadly instrument of attack but also the most versatile. Firearms make some attacks possible that simply would not occur without firearms. They permit attacks at greater range and from positions of better concealment than other weapons. They also permit attacks by persons physically or psychologically unable to overpower their victim through violent physical contact." https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/firearms-and-assault-guns-dont-kill-people-people-kill-people-gun

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Addendum: #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #TheoryInstrumentalism i.e. a #TheoryIndividualism worldview, which deems such issues to be the sole responsibility of the individual. This is the opposite position to the idea that we are primarily the product of our circumstances, that our perspectives are #EpistemologySociallyConstructed. An individualistic perspective is convenient because it removes any notion of shared responsibility for negative events such as mass killing such as this most recent #PhenomnShooting.s; with the corollary being that all success and failure is also only attributable to the individual (as well as making the archetype of the #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype possible).

"For Sale: My White Privilege Card. The card is quite old, but in mint condition. Never been used. Reason for selling: It hasn't done anything for me! No free college, no free food, no free housing, no free anything. I've had to go to work every day of my life while paying a boatload of taxes to fund free stuff for those who suck off the government teat. If interested, I prefer cash but willing to do an even trade for a Victim Card, which seems much more widely accepted and comes with countless benefits without even having to show the card! If interested contact me on my cell phone that I pay for every month. Serious buyers only!
UBERWOKE.com" #WebsiteUberWoke #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #MetaphorCardWhitePrivilege #MetaphorCardVictim #IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype

#IRLBusinesspersonMikeCannonBrookes

#OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPAnthonyAlbanese

#OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreens #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #MetaphorParasiteFreeloader

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Context: criticism projects a #TheoryIndividualismUtilitarian perspective.

#BrandBenAndJerrys

Transcript: "Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you've never had a job.
Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan which you receive no bill for.
Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don't have a water bill, where rising property taxes and rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table.
Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, I without worrying about calling out of work and the consequences that accompany such behavior.
Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don't pay for."
i.e. 'blaming poverty on the poor' / #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating / #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim

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Context: #IRLPoliticianBenjaminRozier (Bloomingdale City Council Mayor) i.e. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-mayor-s-post-privilege-wearing-200-sneakers-slammed-racist-n1231417 #EDUNYCNewDorpHighSchoolDeborahMorseCunningham i.e. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-y-c-officials-probe-staten-island-assistant-principal-s-n1231867

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Supplementary: "At the heart of their arguments is a species of narcissism. I made it. I escaped poverty. Succeed by being like me. They are too personally invested in the myth of meritocracy to admit what the poor already know, which is that there's no such thing." https://newrepublic.com/article/145504/conservatives-blame-poverty-poor #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #TheoryIndividualismUtilitarian #TheoryCognitiveBiasSelfAttribution