r/philosophy • u/Ill-Ad1813 • Jul 14 '22
Humanity’s Best Kept Secret Is That Everything We Do Is Completely Made Up
https://emily-roy.medium.com/humanitys-best-kept-secret-is-that-everything-we-do-is-completely-made-up-993a69ec508b[removed] — view removed post
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u/corpus-luteum Jul 14 '22 edited Jul 14 '22
Doesn't read like any sort of mature critique, TBH. Sounds like somebody acting like a c***.
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u/willowtr332020 Jul 14 '22
What a low quality article. This is internet / Instagram clicky crap.
No depth, contradictory and unhelpful.
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Jul 14 '22
We are animals with higher reasoning, and though we can and do actions civilized all that has to be done is being out our animal nature is provoke a fight or flight response at a minimum. As a result of our reasoning, we are no longer treating each other as animals do and by this have become civil. But if the house of cards ever fall and technology regressed then I imagine survival of the fittest would prevail again
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u/corpus-luteum Jul 14 '22
You need to allow the animal to be born first. To experience it's first experience as an animal. But we don't do that, do we? The human training begins the moment you enter the world.
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u/therealfatmike Jul 14 '22
Wow, someone just took their first college philosophy class, lol.
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u/corpus-luteum Jul 14 '22
And look at you with your well constructed, objective criticism.
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u/BrawlyxHariyama Jul 14 '22
Here is my criticism:
you migh think that renewable energy is completely sustainable and you can sleep tight knowing your big Testa stock is doing great things for the world (lol). The truth is that most renewable energy specifically solar requires more energy to manufacture and mine , vs. the total amount of energy it produces in its lifetime, due to the current demand and amid heat waves in Texas, the energy grid is completely maxed despite things set to 2x by 2030. At current rates and reserves our lithium supply will fully deplete in 80 years (not accounting for lithium not mined/lithium in ocean). if we decided to ever increase renewable energy by 5x, it would only take 16 years to dry up reserves.
there are 2 main points against my arguments:
1) Common Energy companies are on track to develop batteries that use around 90% nickel/cobalt and 10% lithium
2) Battery Recycling will improve eventually so that we can re-use lithium
However, these are complete abstractions, and of course, they serve as copium for people who stand under elon musk, surely these batteries limitations would be a priority for such an eco-friendly company (think mom corp from futurama).
I would like to see some actual initiative from companies / people who continue to disregard mother earth with drilling and deep mining
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Jul 14 '22
What is the difference between a pretend government and government? It feels like the author just came to the realization that all these things are social products but could not articulate any significance beyond that so she tacked on pretend to everything. Maybe she could make an argument that social entities are not real, but that’s a much harder task. There’s another point on how humans are really just savages, but that’s not a very supported point. It was just kinda thrown out there. I wouldn’t call this philosophy at all
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u/TheManInTheShack Jul 14 '22
If it’s all pretend, you should stop pretending and see just how far that gets you. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
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u/Kurkpitten Jul 14 '22
Dang you people should get over yourselves.
You'd think a philosophy sub would appreciate the discussions around even such a surface take.
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u/bellyot Jul 14 '22
So I guess I'm living in a pretend apartment and eating pretend food and using pretend heat.
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