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neoFoucault wrote:
I doubt you have any basis for saying it's "false fact" rather than true fact, are you sure you're not just discarding it because it's inconvenient for your worldview? Maybe you would like that I stop believing in external false dictators limiting my actions and jump from a tall building believing I can fly 
This stance of yours is covered already in Skillen's "Ruling Illusions", it is the epitome of bourgeois ideology, and it is premised on the view that the world is just, therefore individuals have the opportunity to live freely in the world, therefore any problems the individual has are either the individual's fault or a fault in the individual. It has as a logical correlate hatred of black people, poor people, and the Third World, since on this account, since they are poor, persecuted and criminalised, they must deserve it. As well as being racist, imperialist and anti-poor (and by extension anti-autistic whenever autistic people fall foul of the system), its fatal flaw is that it puts beyond critique the characteristics of a dominant system which is a social not a natural construct, and which is constructed from some perspectives rather than others. It denies for instance the role of the observer in socially constructing particular actions/attributes as deviant. To be cured of the illusion that the existing social order is not socially constructed, it is only necessary to spend a few hours reading snippets on anthropology, so as to appreciate the sheer diversity in human cultures and societies and the contingency and locality of what is taken for granted in any single culture.
PS: those of us opposed to the system *do* take our piece of the world from time to time, look up autonomia, autonome, SPK, May 68, the problem is that the authoritarians have a nasty habit of sending the tanks against us. "Wherever whatever-singularities come together, the state is sure to unleash a Tiananmen" (Agamben). The mistake in your analysis is in thinking that conforming to dominant models of subjectivity amounts to taking a piece of the world rather than accepting the master's rewards for compliance. You demand responsibility from the poor, but deny your own responsibility in contributing to sustaining a system which upholds oppression.
PPS: do I detect a hint of anti-intellectualism here? If so, please throw away your computer, it was designed by evil intellectuals who think too much I am proud to be someone who bases my beliefs on knowledge and not on the dogmas of "common sense", to be otherwise is to be enslaved to the ideology of the era, submerged in someone else's story about the world.
This stance of yours is covered already in Skillen's "Ruling Illusions", it is the epitome of bourgeois ideology, and it is premised on the view that the world is just, therefore individuals have the opportunity to live freely in the world, therefore any problems the individual has are either the individual's fault or a fault in the individual. It has as a logical correlate hatred of black people, poor people, and the Third World, since on this account, since they are poor, persecuted and criminalised, they must deserve it. As well as being racist, imperialist and anti-poor (and by extension anti-autistic whenever autistic people fall foul of the system), its fatal flaw is that it puts beyond critique the characteristics of a dominant system which is a social not a natural construct, and which is constructed from some perspectives rather than others. It denies for instance the role of the observer in socially constructing particular actions/attributes as deviant. To be cured of the illusion that the existing social order is not socially constructed, it is only necessary to spend a few hours reading snippets on anthropology, so as to appreciate the sheer diversity in human cultures and societies and the contingency and locality of what is taken for granted in any single culture.
PS: those of us opposed to the system *do* take our piece of the world from time to time, look up autonomia, autonome, SPK, May 68, the problem is that the authoritarians have a nasty habit of sending the tanks against us. "Wherever whatever-singularities come together, the state is sure to unleash a Tiananmen" (Agamben). The mistake in your analysis is in thinking that conforming to dominant models of subjectivity amounts to taking a piece of the world rather than accepting the master's rewards for compliance. You demand responsibility from the poor, but deny your own responsibility in contributing to sustaining a system which upholds oppression.
PPS: do I detect a hint of anti-intellectualism here? If so, please throw away your computer, it was designed by evil intellectuals who think too much
I am proud to be someone who bases my beliefs on knowledge and not on the dogmas of "common sense", to be otherwise is to be enslaved to the ideology of the era, submerged in someone else's story about the world.Dude where is my car? If your confident in your thinking then go for it but comfortability to any way of thinking by demand will not be universally fruitful. Let's see how far it gets you. If you go far then don't worry about the car question. I am not even going to defend myself but if that's the archetype of me you perceive whether it is generic or not for others that you think are certain ways of thinking then feel free to expand you mind in legal ways. My mentality is I got to work with what is and base it on probabilities of outcome. My best suggestion is to find your personal liberation because most people are going to be lost with what your saying whether they got autism, don't have autism or simply got milk either which way.
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