Symbolic Victory
from let's THiNK about it Hosted by Ryder Richards
0:00 The contradictory injunction of double binds. • The contradictory injunction in double binds. • The binary trap in cyberpunk. 2:15 The death drive of determinism. • The death drive of determinism. • How to transcend the binary. 4:44 How the capitalist system capitalizes on our stress. • The capitalist system surprisingly capitalizes on stress. • The anxious revolt is fuel for the bureaucratic nightmare. 6:33 Intro to the show. • America and political symbolic winning, and camouflage. • The wild west of America. 8:55 Virtue signaling to win elections. • Virtue-signaling to win elections. 10:58 Trump's anointed tool. • Trump as an anointed tool of the Christian right. • Winning dignity is absurd. 12:54 How symbolic acts can function in reality. • How the symbolic act can function in reality. • Culture of honor, reputational honor. 14:30 Protecting your reputation through overreaction. • Protection through overreaction • The reversal of the reversal. 16:10 You become what you fight you become. • The unseen aspect of antagonistic opposition in step 65. • Respect for native americans over time. 17:47 How we grasp and use models. • Mimetic desire to dissimulate thoughts into the real. • Symbolism as a faulty translation. • Symbols can become an affectation. • The danger of the symbol that is mistaken
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Symbols can unite us, but when symbols trump reality, the reversal dismantles order. We begin to exist in a simulacrum. Symbolic gestures, such as Ranchers chasing Rustlers in the Wild West seem illogical but can provide symbolic protection through irrationality. The issue is that amplifying "grievance" (for power and reputation) dissuades reconciliation for either side, leading to prolonged and continuous conflict. https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-74-symbolic-victory/
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