You do understand that any USA person who does that would have to check their head for attitudes right?
Attitude as in instability or propensity to commit war crimes against MAGA people? I might fail that check admittedly.
Responsibility for society starts at young adulthood, which is a fuzzy line because it varies per person. Bizarre that you would try to dissociate being a member of a culture and society without acknowledging participation and maintenance and responsibility…
I’m not “trying to dissociate” anything of the sort. I’ve thought and read and debated about about the nature of human existence for an abnormally long time and what I’ve told you is simply a major piece of my current conclusions.
If anything I’m ravenously seeking out someone to convince me my ideas are wrong. Partly because when someone does that it to me it means my beliefs become just that much more refined and accurate. Not enough people are willing to challenge their own beliefs or actively engage in defending them. They attach their ideology to their very identity and react emotionally to counters to their beliefs. I don’t do that or respect that. My loyalty is to reality, not my sense of belonging or identity.
Another reason is a lot of my own beliefs about life and existence (and for instance the current political realities of the country I live in) are quite unpleasant and many of them I’d like to be rid of if I could find some counters convincing enough to break from them I’d honestly be relieved.
If anything my lack of dissociation is making me cripplingly depressed and angry and probably part of why I’m on track for a high blood pressure diagnosis.
but very “American.” It capitulates to authority.
I can assure you that my specific beliefs are not the norm for Americans. Most Americans do not have any desire to think deeply about their own ideology at all, and even those that talk of ideology often just embrace some well developed “counter cultural” identity and call it their ideology without much further analysis.
Attitude as in instability or propensity to commit war crimes against MAGA people? I might fail that check admittedly.
I’m not “trying to dissociate” anything of the sort. I’ve thought and read and debated about about the nature of human existence for an abnormally long time and what I’ve told you is simply a major piece of my current conclusions.
If anything I’m ravenously seeking out someone to convince me my ideas are wrong. Partly because when someone does that it to me it means my beliefs become just that much more refined and accurate. Not enough people are willing to challenge their own beliefs or actively engage in defending them. They attach their ideology to their very identity and react emotionally to counters to their beliefs. I don’t do that or respect that. My loyalty is to reality, not my sense of belonging or identity.
Another reason is a lot of my own beliefs about life and existence (and for instance the current political realities of the country I live in) are quite unpleasant and many of them I’d like to be rid of if I could find some counters convincing enough to break from them I’d honestly be relieved.
If anything my lack of dissociation is making me cripplingly depressed and angry and probably part of why I’m on track for a high blood pressure diagnosis.
I can assure you that my specific beliefs are not the norm for Americans. Most Americans do not have any desire to think deeply about their own ideology at all, and even those that talk of ideology often just embrace some well developed “counter cultural” identity and call it their ideology without much further analysis.