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Projections from pseudo-reality.
Could be the title of a funny series. https://twitter.com/CodyMillerELA/status/1343617887748161674
Could be the title of a funny series. https://twitter.com/CodyMillerELA/status/1343617887748161674
Since I'm spelling out the game very clearly for people, let me do it here for #DisruptTexts.
The claim being made is that people who oppose Critical Theory nonsense don't engage with it. This tired complaint is strewn throughout the Critical Theory literature.
The claim being made is that people who oppose Critical Theory nonsense don't engage with it. This tired complaint is strewn throughout the Critical Theory literature.
In fact, the claim that critics don't "engage" with Critical Theory before dismissing it for the obvious pseudo-real nonsense that it is, is so prevalent and specific (in a pseudo-real way) that it made it into my CSJ Encyclopedia. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-engagement/
When Critical Theorists say critics don't engage with their ideological nonsense, what they mean is that they don't engage with it with a critical consciousness. That is, the complaint is literally "you don't treat our pseudo-reality as reality." https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-consciousness/
This is the paralogical manipulation of the Critical pseudo-reality in action. The accusation is that if you don't "engage" the Critical Theory on terms that already accept the Critical Theory (play in pseudo-reality), you didn't really engage properly. See the trick?
The next step in this manipulation is to project this outward and to say that Critical Theorists, residing outside of the relevant power structure (reality), necessarily are forced to engage with the prevailing system while this isn't reciprocated. Paramoral and paralogical game.
This positions them as the only people who have done the due diligence and all their critics as irresponsible posers who are willfully ignorant. Advantage them. It works on everyone bullied by the paralogic or the paramorality of the pseudo-real system they've created.
This works amazingly well on academics who HATE to be the person who hasn't taken something as seriously as it should be taken and didn't understand its (para)logic on its own terms fully.
Hate my essay all you want. It describes the whole thing. https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism/
Hate my essay all you want. It describes the whole thing. https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism/
Critical Theory is hardly more than some rhetorical tricks that intellectually or morally bully people (mostly by begging the question--"when did you stop beating your wife?") into participating in their pseudo-reality, which is rigged because they own the logic and morals there.
Earlier today, people will have seen me get into a tiff about whether or not this is a "game," and the premise behind that is that the good-natured person saying it's not a game boils down to lots of people who are playing the game don't realize they're playing the game.
That's rather the point of constructing an entire paralogical and paramoral system, though. People who are trapped in it are "playing the game" without realizing it. They "mean well" but are trapped in a system of unreality that's made out of bullying games.
But James! That's accusing them of false consciousness, which is exactly the thing you're fighting against.
Well... almost. Iron Law of Woke Projection is what it is, but the truth is that a pseudo-reality mimics and seeks to replace reality for the people it ensnares.
Well... almost. Iron Law of Woke Projection is what it is, but the truth is that a pseudo-reality mimics and seeks to replace reality for the people it ensnares.
The reason the Iron Law of Woke Projection is a thing is because people who have accepted the basic paralogic and paramoral forms of a pseudo-reality don't know it's not real anymore (or they'd drop it unless intentionally psychopathically playing the game).
As I wrote, "They find themselves in the broken position ... of being reality-inverted such that they believe all normal people who are not (yet) cultists are the cultists while they, themselves, are not. This represents a complete reversal of sanity."
In a slightly earlier paragraph:
Taking on a "critical consciousness," which is required by the paralogic of Critical Theory to have "critically engaged," is "'awaken[ing]' to a 'full consciousness' in the pseudo-reality" in the passage there. The Critical Theory demand is to make people do this until it sticks.
The paralogic of the Critical pseudo-reality sets up a trap for people in this way. If you engage with it, you adopt the paralogic and sleepwalk toward its psychopathy. If you reject it, you "didn't engage" and therefore cannot criticize.
The solution to this is to step aside from the toxic (abusive, psychopathic) dynamic and call it what it is: toxic, abusive, psychopathic, and illegitimate. Thus, my first comment: "Projections from pseudo-reality."
That is, say, "This is not real."
That is, say, "This is not real."
