Seems like destructive anarchism without sufficient praxis or constructive anarchism to make up for it
Channeling my inner Jordan Peterson, life is a combination of creating good things and destroying bad things. If you only do the latter, the good things are not going to appear magically. Instead you will find yourself surrounded by ruins. The thing you destroyed will be replaced by… whatever is the baseline… which is probably not as good as you hoped for, and often much worse than the thing you destroyed.
Judging by the outcomes… hey, I may be getting filtered information, but can anyone tell me one good thing Ziz ever did? (No, yelling at “evil” people does not count, especially from someone who considers virtually everyone evil.) All I see is people getting turned to zombies, some of them killing themselves afterwards.
trying to protect ants...
I had to read the story again, but Ziz didn’t actually save those ants. They merely considered saving them… but then did not. So much for the only doubleplus-good person in the entire universe!
(It’s just everyone else who kills animals, who deserves to be tortured for eternity.)
A nirvana fallacy personified. Or rather, a deeply narcissistic person.
wish Petersen would stop considering people bad things to destroy. but yeah, reasonable component of a good take.
the main actual could-have-been-good material action thing in my view is the off grid living attempt. it instead seems to have amplified their isolation. I do think their commentary about how everyone needs their own spaceship is on the right track; the train of thought derails shortly after that. everythingtosaveit.how actually came up while I was looking for off grid living stuff.
but I don’t disagree with your assessment at all, and my comment wasn’t intended to. I’m mourning the failure at the things they said they wanted, by nature of the things they actually did.
Ziz’s writing was tremendously helpful to me, even with as much as it also messed me up and caused me to spiral on a bunch of things, I did on balance come out better for having interacted with her content. There are all sorts of huge caveats around that of course, but I think to dismiss her as completely bad would be a mistake. After all
Say not, she told the people, that anything has worked only evil, that any life has been in vain. Say rather that while the visible world festers and decays, somewhere beyond our understanding the groundwork is being laid for Moschiach, and the final victory.
Channeling my inner Jordan Peterson, life is a combination of creating good things and destroying bad things. If you only do the latter, the good things are not going to appear magically. Instead you will find yourself surrounded by ruins. The thing you destroyed will be replaced by… whatever is the baseline… which is probably not as good as you hoped for, and often much worse than the thing you destroyed.
Judging by the outcomes… hey, I may be getting filtered information, but can anyone tell me one good thing Ziz ever did? (No, yelling at “evil” people does not count, especially from someone who considers virtually everyone evil.) All I see is people getting turned to zombies, some of them killing themselves afterwards.
I had to read the story again, but Ziz didn’t actually save those ants. They merely considered saving them… but then did not. So much for the only doubleplus-good person in the entire universe!
(It’s just everyone else who kills animals, who deserves to be tortured for eternity.)
A nirvana fallacy personified. Or rather, a deeply narcissistic person.
wish Petersen would stop considering people bad things to destroy. but yeah, reasonable component of a good take.
the main actual could-have-been-good material action thing in my view is the off grid living attempt. it instead seems to have amplified their isolation. I do think their commentary about how everyone needs their own spaceship is on the right track; the train of thought derails shortly after that. everythingtosaveit.how actually came up while I was looking for off grid living stuff.
but I don’t disagree with your assessment at all, and my comment wasn’t intended to. I’m mourning the failure at the things they said they wanted, by nature of the things they actually did.
Ziz’s writing was tremendously helpful to me, even with as much as it also messed me up and caused me to spiral on a bunch of things, I did on balance come out better for having interacted with her content. There are all sorts of huge caveats around that of course, but I think to dismiss her as completely bad would be a mistake. After all