Search results

I will strategically and cheekily quote this at some point

I would imagine you would feel entirely subjected to the big other, as if any sufficiently authoritative figure could reach into you and eviscerate you without you being able to put up a fight. I would imagine quite the array of horrible complexes can spread from this, if we consider a complex...

But to complicate matters further, you can inherit, from indirect sources, invisible lens through which you process direct experience. That would be the manner in which indirect information folds over upon direct information.

While there is something to be said for the this endless deferral (as I have mentioned to you, in terms of an endless series of checkpoints), I will gladly oblige in this situation. That said, in my mind, I was already fleshing this out in the previous two three posts. The information you...

But there is something to be said for the relativity of pathos here, if you'll indulge this promisingly lofty aside. If your material conditions are adequate to keep physiological harm at bay, than its not unreasonable to ascribe at least some portion of your emotional suffering to the...

Heres a thought. Maybe you may suffer emotionally due to hardships that you experience directly, but the attribution of blame is largely handled by what narrative you subscribe to. And sometimes it registers as obvious, which is perhaps just the marker of an effective narrative. The conclusions...

And I do think that the narrativization of a particular set of circumstances is predicated upon the existence of said set of circumstances. Or at least the probability that the conditions upon which the proposed narrative is built is a believable set of conditions. Always wiggle room here.

Are we really arguing on the basis of an either/or here? Either material conditions or narrativization of material conditions? I think a more interesting direction of argument is how precisely this feedback loop functions. edit: I misplaced a critical "or" but I have fixed it

My last semester in Chicago I was spending around $35 a week on food, on average. Sometimes less. Largely in the interest of seeing just how much food matters. Trader Joes was surprisingly accommodating here. I ate out maybe twice during my last year there.

$100 a month for a nutritious diet is possible, but very strategically and with cutbacks on enjoyability. I'm talking grains, eggs, maybe a couple other things. Tight. Maybe more, if you have proper options. Overall I'd say that is an underestimation. Per person ~$45 a week is more likely, but...

I thank you, dudes and lads alike, for the heated morning, and I wish you all a temperate day.

Is the poverty line globally constant? Just expressed in different but equivalent monetary figures? I recall learning that it was equal to a dollar and some change per day, but perhaps that was just in the case of a certain African nation.

Its not clear to me any longer what this argument is about, aside from pathos perpetuating it and fabricating reasons to do so. edit: that is, we seem to have already reached a synthesis regarding @suspended 's point. At least I have.

As an aside, maybe depression undergoes some kind of existential mutation when it cannot be attributed to material suffering. That may distinguish a poverty-fueled depression from a more bourgeois one.

I interpreted @suspended 's point this way. Interpretation of material circumstances can compound the direct effects of material circumstances, such that the rage someone feels in response to their circumstances is always partially exogenous to their actual experience. If it doesn't directly...

Thats what I was trying to clarify, but I also think he's making a good point. Same could be said for many of the arguments made here. Good points embedded within a string of words that isn't entirely worth salvaging. Just the good parts. How?

Which seems to be the reason academia is academic, insofar as academic is used to mean immaterial.

I admit I do have a problem in frequently (as in throughout the process of writing out most sentences) getting swept up in clarifying conceptual problems, which tends to launch me off the ground and keep me in the air.

How can that be understood by people like me in any other way than intensive sympathetic speculation? And how can such speculation be articulated without sounding academic here, or otherwise disregardably abstract?

Well I'm far from fending off death, unless you mean even the real world within the world where death is largely off the table. In that case, still probably right. Its a facile model, sure. But could it be a step toward better understanding what we mean by suffering?