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Kafkaescence

Kafkaescence

  • Lounge, The Re: Sup Y’all

    I was just looking at some of my old reviews back when I was active on here and godd**n I was harsh! I grew up with a lot of demons ...

    Apr 9, 2018
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Let's talk about pop music

    Contemporary artists are rarely successful purely because they have talent, or even because they just make music people want to hear. Success requires immense business savvy, perseverance, awareness,

    Oct 17, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is There Democracy in the US?

    @Spotswood In my opinion, in this day and age at least, we need to sacrifice our desire for complete and total freedom (which we, thankfully, do not have anyway, since ...

    Oct 8, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is There Democracy in the US?

    before WHEN? Everything you're saying is too vague and too subjective. Also: How do you define small? And what about our current condition excludes the capitalist ideology?

    Oct 4, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is There Democracy in the US?

    @15253 Whenever there's a public sphere that regulates and coincides with a private sphere, there will be corruption. In that sense there really can be no true democracy, particularly on ...

    Oct 4, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Termination of Pregnancy due to foetal abnormalities

    I'd stop worrying about ethics so much--everything is subjective, since every scenario is different and everyone's brains work in different ways. Imposing a universal code of morals on this or ...

    Sep 22, 2014
  • Lounge, The Re: Non-Writing Activities Which Help You Write?

    Meditation. And LSD.

    Jul 31, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion: Good or Bad

    Babies conceived by rape and babies conceived by consensual sex are biologically the same. If one has a right to life then so does the other. Children conceived through consensual ...

    Jul 20, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    People with conscious, harmful racial bias are people who have not intellectualized the fact that people are equal, and who do not exercise corrective thought patterns when their ethnocentricity does ...

    Jul 16, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    Your initial post argued that, based on evolution, ethnocentrism will always exist, You seem to have latched onto this point whilst ignoring all of my others, so let me make ...

    Jul 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    @Kyllorac Haha, social pressure will never be strong enough to actually prevent ethnocentric people (currently, everyone) from mating, but nice try! These instincts are reinforced, like I said, by hun

    Jul 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    I disagree with your conclusion that unconscious ethnocentricity can really be "addressed" or removed at a conscious level. Ethnocentricity exists as a tribal function due to the fact that humans ...

    Jul 11, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    Also, I'm just saying, when it comes to oppression, real people's real life experiences > all the research in the world. I'm really struggling to hear you over your deafening ...

    Jul 11, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    The fact of the matter is that, based on my experiences as a non-white person, every white person I have ever encountered has been racist towards me, including members of ...

    Jul 11, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Gay rights? (cont)

    I see what you mean @Kafka, but no straighty ever has the same motivation as an lgbt+ person. You might """really care""", but until it's your life on the line ...

    Jun 27, 2014


You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
— Rod Serling