I found Maral on only your podcast on spodify. Thank you. I would love to hear her in a long form discussion. I've listened to many on the subject of woke, and ideological purity, and certitude. I've been looking at it from a sadist/masochist lense. She is the first that I've found to elucidate, and speak to their moral sadism. The ideologues are blinded by certitude, communal narcessisim, and cluster B personality disorders. They lack meaning, and purpose in life, they seek shelter in a refuge of vacuity, and are educated in the academic halls of orthodoxy, and exhalted imbicility. God help us all. They are eroding hope, and humanity. Fundamentalism can easily tilt towards militant fundamentalism. We are closer to (un)civil war, than many are willing to admit. Thanks Stephanie love your podcast!!
I mean, I would understand it if these people were saying "I know that I would be persecuted and killed in Palestine, but that doesn't change the fact that what I see happening there is wrong". The purple-hair brigade who think every issue they support has the same ideals they do are delusional, though. They'd be carried through the streets shoulder-high in triumph, but not for the reasons they think.
Hi Stephanie, thanks for posting this. I recently wrote an article for the Genspect substack (Gender Affirming Care is a Social Engineering Attack) which covered similar terrain, including Operation Spanner and the Liberty Five. Your comments on that article would be appreciated. As well as the psychological, I believe there is a historical factor. In the 1980s, progressives supported the ANC in South Africa despite its murders of opponents. Palestine is the new South Africa, which is why words like apartheid get applied to Israel even though the situation is not a direct analogy. It goes back to the Cold War; whichever side hates white people also hates the West, and that's the side which progressive masochists will simp for.
As a non-white person, I detest the anti-white movement; it's the new systematic racism. This woke virus as a whole, has infected social media, movies, series', video games, the workplace, and most frighteningly, education.
Most people would rather be thought well of by their peers than actually be good. This might be the master game-able weakness. When we "lower the temperature", people feel more free to think about what's actually right, rather than chanting whatever slogan helps them keep their jobs and their friends for another day.
Bravo. It’s especially delicious how she deconstructed the psychology of Wokeness specifically with the ideas of Eric Fromm, who was a member of the Frankfurt school and early proponent of Critical Theory- the very wellspring that woke ideology grew out of.
Just wow… I have been arguing with a friend who is a social scientist and she does not believe anything I say about cluster B. I have listened to a lot of professor Sam Vaknin. Any recommendations for others? Any published studies that support what she has to say in this video?
The sadomasochism arguments might prove too much. Most people are motivated to sacrifice their immediate self-interest to satisfy their sense of justice. It's why civilized people refrain from stealing, even if they can get away with it. Without that impulse, society breaks down. You might argue that this is not self-sacrifice so much as it is sacrificing short-run self-interest for long-run self-interest. But the mechanism by which you not stealing with impunity benefits you in the long-run is at least as murky as the mechanism by which you not reporting black crime benefits you in the long-run. In both cases, the aim is to contribute to a better world, which will somehow create an ROI. To me, the simpler explanation for Queers for Palestine is that there is no paradox; the ideology sorts people into powerful oppressors and powerless oppressed, where the oppressor can do no right and the oppressed can do no wrong. As the weaker of the two factions, the Palestinians are oppressed and can do no wrong.
I love her points, I hope she can come on again to have a longer conversation
Fantastic episode. Maral Salmassi's takes are very interesting. Reminds me of what Gad Saad is saying regarding "suicidal empathy".
I found Maral on only your podcast on spodify. Thank you.
I would love to hear her in a long form discussion. I've listened to many on the subject of woke, and ideological purity, and certitude.
I've been looking at it from a sadist/masochist lense.
She is the first that I've found to elucidate, and speak to their moral sadism.
The ideologues are blinded by certitude, communal narcessisim, and cluster B personality disorders. They lack meaning, and purpose in life, they seek shelter in a refuge of vacuity, and are educated in the academic halls of orthodoxy, and exhalted imbicility.
God help us all.
They are eroding hope, and humanity. Fundamentalism can easily tilt towards militant fundamentalism.
We are closer to (un)civil war, than many are willing to admit.
Thanks Stephanie love your podcast!!
Accidentally came across your channel and this video....
Brilliant !
Thank you.
I mean, I would understand it if these people were saying "I know that I would be persecuted and killed in Palestine, but that doesn't change the fact that what I see happening there is wrong".
The purple-hair brigade who think every issue they support has the same ideals they do are delusional, though. They'd be carried through the streets shoulder-high in triumph, but not for the reasons they think.
I always call them the Gender Gestapo. In my mother language it nicely alliterates.
Hi Stephanie, thanks for posting this. I recently wrote an article for the Genspect substack (Gender Affirming Care is a Social Engineering Attack) which covered similar terrain, including Operation Spanner and the Liberty Five. Your comments on that article would be appreciated.
As well as the psychological, I believe there is a historical factor. In the 1980s, progressives supported the ANC in South Africa despite its murders of opponents. Palestine is the new South Africa, which is why words like apartheid get applied to Israel even though the situation is not a direct analogy.
It goes back to the Cold War; whichever side hates white people also hates the West, and that's the side which progressive masochists will simp for.
As a non-white person, I detest the anti-white movement; it's the new systematic racism. This woke virus as a whole, has infected social media, movies, series', video games, the workplace, and most frighteningly, education.
Thank you Maral for your wise words ❤🙏
Most people would rather be thought well of by their peers than actually be good. This might be the master game-able weakness. When we "lower the temperature", people feel more free to think about what's actually right, rather than chanting whatever slogan helps them keep their jobs and their friends for another day.
Bravo. It’s especially delicious how she deconstructed the psychology of Wokeness specifically with the ideas of Eric Fromm, who was a member of the Frankfurt school and early proponent of Critical Theory- the very wellspring that woke ideology grew out of.
Thanks, Stephanie. ❤❤😎😎
Excellent points from both women.
This is SO spot on.
Excellent
What episode do you speak about TIPP , you mentioned this at the end
"Parasitic mind" by prof. Gaad Saad
Just wow… I have been arguing with a friend who is a social scientist and she does not believe anything I say about cluster B. I have listened to a lot of professor Sam Vaknin. Any recommendations for others? Any published studies that support what she has to say in this video?
How's this going to work then - Do they send messages's saying Hello Hammas - Here is my bottom for you to thrash?? They're weird
I still don't understand why your subs are so low. I don't get it
Chicken for KFC ! Lol..
The Colonel was right...
The sadomasochism arguments might prove too much. Most people are motivated to sacrifice their immediate self-interest to satisfy their sense of justice. It's why civilized people refrain from stealing, even if they can get away with it. Without that impulse, society breaks down. You might argue that this is not self-sacrifice so much as it is sacrificing short-run self-interest for long-run self-interest. But the mechanism by which you not stealing with impunity benefits you in the long-run is at least as murky as the mechanism by which you not reporting black crime benefits you in the long-run. In both cases, the aim is to contribute to a better world, which will somehow create an ROI.
To me, the simpler explanation for Queers for Palestine is that there is no paradox; the ideology sorts people into powerful oppressors and powerless oppressed, where the oppressor can do no right and the oppressed can do no wrong. As the weaker of the two factions, the Palestinians are oppressed and can do no wrong.
Dostoevsky , rest in peace, with "crime and punishment", compared to those people.
The tyranny of nice.