You’re so right on that overlap. It’s incredible how this alt-right propaganda machine has like colonized so many ideas into itself. I don’t blame you for having that habit, it’s fucking everywhere and it’s infuriating.

Also I can def see that about Dr Wilkins, I just thought the concepts were interesting but definitely that’s one of the, not maybe a fallacy but some kind of slope to those ideas

No, I’m not.

👍 my bad sorry

We’re not expected by whom? Weren’t meant by whom?

Not sure what you mean here, to me I’m interpreting this as I was implying some kind of intelligent or intentional design which I think is a misunderstanding of most of the conversations in these comments

I don’t say “meant” as in there was an intent behind the design, neither did the original post. “Meant” as in what something was adapted for, like wild animals being “meant” to live in their habitat and not in a cage. Their biology and psychology was most suitable for their own habitat and moving them out of it is distressing just as the original post was illustrating. Our bodies weren’t optimized for this environment and it causes some distress in some regards. It’s kind of a neutral statement expressing dissatisfaction that our needs aren’t being met by our environment

This isn’t my field, but I remember a lot of these convos during Covid about the parallels of zoochosis and what people were feeling at the time, seems similar to the original discussion

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/bear-in-mind/202106/enculturated-captivity-zoochosis-and-collective-trauma

Just thought it was interesting and semi-related

Even beyond the weird metaphysical and iusnaturalist implications, this train of thought is how you end up with people drinking raw water and eating just boiled meat. We weren’t “made” to seek out community any more than we were “made” to not have antibiotics or die from appendicitis.

You lost me here sorry, dunno how we got to raw milk or appendicitis. Obviously these are bad things, but I don’t think we were trying to connect every societal ill to this hot take on twitter.

Stop it.

didn’t know I was doing anything sorry bro 😭

I think you’re agreeing with the premise without realizing it. We weren’t meant to have the norms and expectations that society places on us to just survive. We’re not expected to just retain homeostasis and survival, part of that has been predicated on your “personal productivity” towards the systems that we live under. Access to community and group resources is something we’re made to seek out, but it’s been blocked behind paywalls and monetary requirements effectively.

I’m really over this underserved hate for TikTok. So much of my political shift to the left is from the firsthand accounts of the rest of the world, academics, activists, and scholars that are active on TikTok. They tried to ban it because of how effective TikTok was for showing firsthand accounts of the Palestinian genocide, just ask Mitch McConnell *Mitt Romney why they pushed so hard for the ban.

It’s a platform, so it can be a distraction, echo chamber, or propaganda, like all the rest of them are. But good lord does it get a bad rep on Reddit, and wouldn’t you know it from here too.

Also dance trends haven’t really been as much of a thing since literally the pandemic

Still no, from the first sentence of your article

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