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masquerademinutes wrote (edited )

What is interesting is that many "rationals" do not follow through the logical end of rationality and don't accept the disenchantment of the world, a lot of them still think in terms of "values", "virtues" (see them using the word "degeneracy"), which are all representations of emotions. Ray Brassier calls this out in "Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction" and says this should be seen as a power of rationality instead of a pitiful end.

It's also interesting to see them appeal to nature when it's convenient ("sex differences", "black vs white ppl") when rationality is the very thing that would/should transcend nature -- you can't base yourself in a concept and then backtrack.

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