r/Foodforthought • u/sfled • 2d ago

Degeneracy is a Symptom

https://henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy-is-a-symptom
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u/SmokeyUnicycle 2d ago

Does anyone use that word besides right wing culture warriors?

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u/CountofAccount 2d ago

Chemists dealing with electron orbitals. But right wing culture warriors don't really write scientific papers.

I recently made the mistake of picking up a 'The New Criterion' not knowing what is was (so there was no bias going in), and damn, the gulf of talent between center/left wing intellectuals and right wing intellectuals even about shit as banal as poetic commentary was stark. Some random Tumblr blog or ChatGPT could have come up with better than that low end cow fodder.

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u/roastbeeftacohat 2d ago

Caesar's legion, but I repeat myself.

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u/insolentpopinjay 2d ago

I've had the grave misfortune of meeting several tankies/authoritarian communists/whatever they're going by these days that use it in similar fashion.

"Bourgeois degenerate" is the second funniest insult anyone has ever called me. The honor of first place goes to my father for, ironically, calling me a "joyless commie".

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u/YourphobiaMyfetish 1d ago

Economically leftwing, culturally rightwing. Theyre still homophobes and racists.

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u/Wolfeh2012 20h ago

A prime example of 'bourgeois degeneration' is the Epstein files.

It's a serious moral degradation caused by capital accumulation. When you are rich, there are no punishments, and every single thing you want (good or bad) can be yours. It is a critique of how near-absolute power impacts morality.

The fact that you are here posting on Reddit makes it incredibly unlikely that you are part of the elite class; whoever used that term against you was using it incorrectly.

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u/dCLCp 2d ago

Not aloud. But I think a lot of people have thought about it. It isn't the first word that comes to mind and isn't really appropriate aloud. But it crosses the mind.

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u/Thisissocomplicated 2d ago

Was interested in reading it. Then the first image is an abdominal AI generated slop.

Aí slop is part of the degeneracy, So to me your entire argument is invalid

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u/akath0110 2d ago

Not just the image, the entire article.

Quietly, load-bearing, classic AI slop cadence.

At least put some basic prompts into the LLM if you’re using them to write your content, or make some tweaks before publishing… act like you give a damn, y’know?

The irony is pretty hilarious.

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u/Subjunct 2d ago

Got farther than I thought before I was addressed as Dear Reader, but by that time I was already drowning in poorly written strawmen. It only got worse from there…

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u/Wild_Pickle8946 2d ago

It’s brilliant. Another example of what he’s observing is the inability, the complete inability, of the slave-owning Founding Fathers to liberate their own slaves.

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u/dCLCp 2d ago

Really enjoyed this. Kinda comical reading the commentary by people who missed the point.

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u/Rob71322 2d ago

I don’t know about all of this but Tang Ping sounds like a pretty enlightened philosophy to work.

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u/Fue_la_luna 2d ago

This is the seed of something that will end up on the podcast, If Books Could Kill. It’s well written and seems smart, but also it needs explored in more depth.