• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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                  5 months ago

                  You’re mixing a lot of unrelated concepts here.

                  Just because authoritarians pretend that the status quo is inevitable and immutable doesn’t mean that reality itself is a human invention made to justify it and other assumptions.

                  Likewise, conflating defeatism disguised as realism with the concept of reality itself is not just a giant leap of logic. It’s a giant leap AWAY from anything resembling logical thought.

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                    5 months ago

                    Reality isn’t fake because it’s defeatist, it just happens to be both fake and defeatist. It’s fake because it was invented by rich white men in the 1600s to justify colonialism. And it’s defeatist because most people today acknowledge those rich assholes were wrong about how the world should be, but not about how it is.