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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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With the prison sentences for activists who threw soup on "sunflowers", our society has affirmed that an illustration of nature is something we value. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They view the world at extremely low resolution.

They think all of this is not only connected, but so connected as to be the same thing:

  • oil industry
  • capitalism
  • western civilization
  • great european art

Basically there’s a particular type of philosophical disorder where a person has no “weighting dropoff” in the connections between their things. Every relationship has 100% weight, so if A, B, C, and D are connected in some way then A is D and you can fight A by fighting D.

I don’t know if there’s a term for this, but it’s basically like the zero-signal-degradation manner of reasoning about causality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I can see modern art and stuff being connected to capitalism, but how do you see Stonehenge factor in?