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You're welcome. I'm an anarcho-antirealist. You can read our manifesto at http://soulism.net/.
I firmly believe that reality is the "final boss" of leftism, and that no socialist movement will see long term success while we believe in reality. We live in a subjective world created by capitalist media, and we must seize the means of Creation - the social process of deciding what is true about our world. Whether it be interpreted as propaganda, spirituality, science, or law.
When we admit that the world is not objective, we take away the ability for leaders to control us with Creation. We weaken hierarchical religious structures, and strengthen collaborative systems like science.
I get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when I try to look at the site.
I don't know that I completely agree. Science suggests that there is an objective reality, it is our percepttion that is not objective.
Perception is reality, Plato's Cave and all that.
Humans are mostly driven by emotion and using logic to make decisions, even only at the personal level, is difficult and rare. Leaders, political and religious, use that emotional thinking to consistently short circuit logic and rationality. They drive emotional thinking in whichever direction to achieve their goals, usually at the expense of the people.
Personally, I've had 'good' results over the last few years deliberately divorcing emotion from the decision process and just looking at the facts as best I am able to understand. Watching everyone around us going nuts: friends and family into Qanon and MAGAtry, vaccine denial, etc. It's been painfully educational.
Best I can tell, most people are functionally illiterate and irrational. (Illiterate may not be the correct word, un-critical maybe?)
I now think that most people of the left are the same, maybe a little better. Tankies here on Lemmy are a great example, they're so emotional that their brains have fallen out. I fall firmly on the left even if I think that most of us aren't really thinking and are actually working off what feels correct.
So, while I do think there is objective reality, I don't think most people are even trying to work off it. I'm not sure that we can. So, functionally, reality is pretty subjective.
I do know that, personally, I'm driven to try and gain as accurate a worldview as possible given the facts and science available to me.
I have almost no mysticism left in me. I do feel awe at the natural world, the cosmos, my love for my people. I'm comfortable allowing that feeling guide some of my decisions. I don't think much personal harm will come from a deep respect of nature, for instance.
After losing my religion, I have defined my life's purpose as taking care of my people. It's arbitrary and emotional, but it brings me comfort.
Whoops, I'm too used to typing an S in web addresses. The link should work now.
I think people are trying to work off of objective reality, and that's a problem. For example, TERFs correctly understand that gender identity is subjective, but they make the mistake of thinking sex is objective. Because they're committed to working off objective reality, they believe sex is more important than gender, and dismiss gender. Thus, all their transphobia. If they didn't believe in reality, they wouldn't be TERFs. They'd value the subjective construct of sex and the subjective construct of gender identity equally in terms of truth, and recognise that gender identity is important to our wellbeing. I wish people didn't try to follow reality.
Have to get some shit done. I'll read through later and respond.
You could just respond with an unrelated photo again, that would save time.
Bless your heart. Go play quietly in your room, the adults are talking.
Lol, yeah, you're a real rational adult.
Idiot