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/393/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (I) ft. Nina Power
🕑 Added 2024-02-20 07:00:04 +0000 UTCOn the politics of emotions and emotionalism.
Philosopher Nina Power (an editor and columnist at Compact Magazine) kicks off this series by talking to us about anger, hate, and evil.
- Do we complain too little or too much? Should we be more repressed?
- Political passions were meant to be dead. Has anger overtaken apathy?
- Should we hate our enemies? Is that okay?
- Has contemporary society become hysterical?
- Why does everyone want to be a victim today? How does this relate to self-interest?
- Is evil a psychological concept?
Links:
- What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, Nina Power, Penguin Books
- Nina's columns at Compact Magazine
- Political Ponerology, Andrew Lobaczewski, Red Pill Press (pdf)
Comments
Aufhebunga Bunga
I like Sam, but while I know people like that, none of them have become free-marketeers, at all. And that's probably because free market ideas are not what's in the ether right now, and more importantly, because the "bad left ideas/behaviours" that repulses erstwhile leftists mainly pertains to cultural stuff. So it makes sense that the reaction against that would be on cultural rather than economic terrain. -Alex
Aneurin
Sam Kriss, who shows it’s possible to get cancelled and not convert to Christianity, is good on this: “There’s a strange phenomenon where people who’ve been cast out of left-wing milieux tend to start shifting rightwards; it’s happened to people I know. But why? Yes, your old comrades turned out to be a group of denunciatory sadists—but why would that also mean that the free market is the most efficient way of allocating scarce resources? It’s because even for intellectuals (maybe especially for intellectuals), opinions aren’t really the result of a careful examination of the facts, or even a question of personal conscience. Instead, they’re mostly determined by whatever other opinions are floating around in your vicinity. Wherever you are, there’s a demon at your hand. The reason I’ve used an example from the left is simply that I’m on the left myself, and this demon is my own”
