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Other philosophy communities have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ x ]
"I thunk it so I dunk it." - Descartes
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If you're talking about Rene "uh ackually, the immaterial soul steers the material body through the pituitary gland despite being immaterial" Descartes dualism, yeah it's pretty much garbage. They can never explain how something immaterial can not only interact but dominate something material. The idea of the immaterial dominating the material has insidious implications. This is why settlers constantly paint Indigenous people and Asians to a lesser extend as noble savages "close to nature." Being close to nature is to say they're more bestial and lower in the great chain of being compared with the cerebral European whose closer proximity to God means they are more distant from nature. Their alleged distance from God means the God given rights of life, liberty, and most importantly, property did not apply to them, giving settlers ideological carte blanche to steal land from the Indigenous and genocide Indigenous peoples in the same way you get rid of termites eating your house.
"Everything is possible with sheer infinite willpower" takes are also the basis of sigma grindset :brainworms: and lots of :libertarian-approaching: delusions in general.