Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

The singularity already happened.

Yes, I am going to sit back and watch your ingroup and his and her and their ingroup all try to exterminate each other until you decide that extermination is a losing game. No I am not neutral on the issue of who wins but I am much more opposed to the uses of exterminationist politics. No I do not believe that by my inaction I am equally culpable in this. Yes I will help you avoid extermination but I will also tell you that you should give up on exterminationist politics while I'm at it.

Nowhere is it written that you get to express your every inclination everywhere, all the time, without contest. That's the aristocratic dream of a Nietzschean and I'd like to see two of those people share a road, much less a bathroom.
Yes, your pure absolute subjectivity will be trampled on by civilization.
Yes, Freud wrote about all of this.
Yes, you are going to have to take an L until such time as you can manifest so much coercion that you will selfishly suppress everyone else.

"But Cosmo," you say (stupidly), "Aren't you saying that we should suppress our individuality until we win over outgroup with our respectability?"

Yes. That's close enough to what I'm saying. And the alternative is exterminationist politics and you know it. And we might very live in a balance of terror because exterminationism is worse. And you can be a big boy or a big girl and self-police a little bit and then cry about it to your therapist in private.

"But Cosmo," you say, "Are you denying my individuality? Are you saying individuality isn't real?"

Individuality is real and the proper way to properly honor individuality is with boring old liberal norms. We don't get to enjoy those norms until people either (a) give up on Schmittian intergroup conflict or (b) the exterminationists settle the intergroup conflict one way or the other. Think, therefore, of your individuality as a prize to be enjoyed after the conflict and not a solution to it.

There have been zero wide-scale problems resolved by "getting to know me as an individual" because it's a solution that simply does not scale. You can't find any examples in history of inter-group conflict being resolved by the acid of individualism. It doesn't happen. We only believe that it happens because you and me are each selfish and narcissistic enough to believe that your unique qualities and my unique qualities will shine through. And the truth is that they don't, and they never have.

"But Cosmo," you say, "Surely the correct response is to see that we're all HUMAN, right? Ingroup or outgroup, we all contain multitudes, right?"
Yes indeed. And the multitudes within you that are capable of standing up for the respectability of your ingroup will be repaid by the multitudes within Mister Outgroup who stands up for the respectability of the outgroup. Unfortunately we will not get to know each other each as precious individuals.

Whereas (being a shitlib) I think that exterminationist politics are really bad and a bit of self-policing is tolerable. Does that mean norms for modestly pluralistic tolerance? Does that mean that it's necessary to occasionally yuck the yum of ingroup? YES. YES. FOR A THOUSAND TIMES YES. Nowhere is it written that you are entitled to enjoy ingroupness forever without any perturbation. That's a stupid thing to expect. So don't be stupid and don't become a Schmittian. Do a little self-policing.

There's basically two reactions to this: Schmittian and Liberal. Or if you like, "conflict culture" and "mistake culture."
The harder you cling to ingroup the less you'll want to police ingroup according to the standards of outgroup, and the more your stance towards outgroup will be friend/enemy distinction. And on the occasion that outgroup agrees to the same terms, then we're just in full-blown mutual exterminationist politics. THAT'S UNBELIEVABLY BAD.

The problem is that ingroup has INGROUP BLINDNESS. In many cases the least salient thing about ingroup to ingroup is ingroupness, but the most salient thing about ingroup to outgroup is probably ingroupness.
This is a problem when you consider that an authority with ingroupness might appear by the standards of outgroup as tyrannizing, corrupt, etc. And deviants with ingroupness might appear by the standards of outgroup as extreme and disgusting.

I'll tell you how ingroup feels about ingroup -- it's great! I wish the whole world could be like ingroup! The authorities in ingroup are sagacious and fair, the deviants in ingroup are silly little imps, and the only real problem about ingroup is that they have to deal with those gosh darn outgroupers who -- just between us -- it would be better off if they all disappeared!

I am requesting that you should police ingroup on the basis of what outgroup tells you about ingroup, not on the basis of how ingroup feels about ingroup.

Disengaged from our pursuits, appearing only through volatility, challenging our every clearing -- φύσεις defies our inquiries.

The clearings in which we hope to gain the presence of our objects -- they are cleared (or better, constituted) by social activity, and in those clearings only processes are ever present.

Here is what Pyrrhonism teaches us: our inquiries are pursuits of appearances through clearings. The pursuit itself is actually disengaged from the object itself, which has no interest or care for the pursuit. The pursuit emerges from our animalities, our personalities, our pliabilities, and our sense-modalities. The appearances that we pursue are volatile coincidences of fleeting through local conditions, mediated by those conditions, with only comparative distinctions in the appearance. ...

For less than an instant, it all became a field of color. Everything in your whole field of vision became a musement, a whirl of uncategorizable experience.

You turn the corner back onto your street. You are almost home. When you glance at the front door of your home there is something unfamiliar in front of it. In an instant you will deduce that it is a box that you set on your front porch with the intent to carry it to the garbage. But in the instant that it took you to realize this, in a split-second, you experienced an instant of aphasia. In that moment as you were trying to cognize the distant brown smudge in your vision, all the colors ran...

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