Whether it’s economic, cultural, political, religious, ideological, whatever, what are some ideas that you believe in? I think friendly (very important!!) discussion of these could be good as to understand the views of others. Pluralism and the acceptance of many beliefs is generally a good thing.
As long as you don’t believe in implausible conspiracy theories or say anything that is listed on the rules of most Lemmy communities and instances (in which case, don’t say it), I think the opinions of others should be respected!
Please don’t devolve this into a hot political argument, holy war, or similar. It ends badly for world powers (all of them), and it will end badly here with no winning sides. Friendly debate is ok as long as you don’t go nuts, make sure you give good supporting arguments with evidence!
I’m a pragmatist.
It means everyone hates me because I don’t agree with their ideology and principles. I also acknowledge change and limits, which also pisses people off. I don’t argue from or compare reality to utopian ideals, because that’s inherently hypocritical, as I am not ideal.
I think principles are cool, but stupid when they are self-defeating, and a lot of ideologies hold to their principles to the point of stupidity and self-defeat.
I think idealism comes from insecurity and a lack of control over oneself and a projection of that lack of control onto others.
I also think pop psychology is demonic and destroying our social fabric, in the USA, at least.
Curious about what kind of limits you acknowledge that makes people angry.
money, time, energy, resources, biology etc.
lots of idealists here think such things don’t exist and that we can magically make them infinite based on willpower alone because after all they are just ‘social constructs’.
Your take strikes me as a tad nihilistic, aside from this.^ Example?
your comment is an example.
the incessant need to classify everything into an extremist viewpoint. very few people are sociopaths, narcissits, gaslighting, etc. but people love to use pop psychology to ‘diagnose’ anyone they disagree with as mentally ill.
My brother in Christ, Nihilism is not pop psychology.
No, the pop psychology is your need to define someone else as a nihilist based on a single internet comment.
“Your take strikes me as a tad…”
I Didn’t attempt to define you at all. Only talking about the statements you shared.