The Funky Academic

  • @TokenBoomerOP
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    1 year ago

    Just found this guy last night. He has some great insights you might enjoy. I’m trying to understand liberal psychology, ie, harm reduction and maintaining the status quo. Any starting points you can think of that might help me would be appreciated.

    • @unfreeradical
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      11 year ago

      Liberal psychology is based on a collective delusion that alienates an ideal, presented as universal, from any immediate experience, such that all meaningful experience by an individual alienates the individual from the rest of society, who perceives only the ideal.

      Thus, all unity from shared experience is annihilated by servility to the abstract.

      • @TokenBoomerOP
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        -21 year ago

        Thanks. I think this was a theme in Adam Curtis’s Century of Self, although it’s not very explicit.

        • @unfreeradical
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          1 year ago

          Marx and Durkheim have laid the groundwork for psychological transformations under liberal society.

          Postmodernist authors have tried to address the issues more comprehensively, to varying degrees of coherence and reliability.

          The Spectacle of the Situationists, and capitalist realism of Mark Fisher, interrogate the extreme alienation of postmodernity.

          • @TokenBoomerOP
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            -11 year ago

            One day I’ll read Capitalist Realism, I promise. I’ve watched some of his lectures. Sometimes I understand him, other times I feel lost.