'no one is alive except you' must be the most terrifying thing a stupid person can experience. could you imagine living in the world and not just seeing yourself as like, one fuckin' cell in the much larger organization of humanity?
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'what is the stupidest thing a smart person can experience?' knowing they can't learn all there is to know and experience all there is to be experienced. or possibly why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch
it's very weird that he seems to think that way, like we are but toys to him. personally, I find that the reality of everyone having complex lives and interactions is cool to think about. that we're all here on the same planet like this, together. and sometimes our stories cross, like now! hi :D
Hi! Life is cool as shit! Sometimes i get to just talk with people about their lives and they'll tell me shit I didn't even know was a thing, and it's just. like. wow. how cool is it that we, us, like, get to meet each other? there will never be another meeting exactly like ours. never.
i just want to like, snap my fingers in front of his eyes a bit and be like "we are alive. all of us. like seven fucking billion people. every single one of those people is alive, and a whole human being. you are in a fucking community, you dipshit. those are people, fucker. just as human as you"
I said "what is the stupidest thing a smart person ever experienced" which is a typo. I meant "scariest" which didn't make the joke better, but honestly it's not a great joke
I wish the point of view gun was real. I wish someone with a moderate grip on reality of an average human being did a driveby thru the silicon valley with it.
All I will ever see Musk as, is a robber baron, racist, and an Apartheid inheritor.
A disgusting, entitled relic of an era better off slain, vainly thinking he'll be more than who he actually is, and thinking "if I can't have it, then no one should."
there's that one picture of people in cars and each one has a different little story written above them and the replies to that are just like "wow! apparently this is called sonder, and it's MY FIRST TIME EXPERIENCING IT" :'(
There's an episode of a horror podcast I like where someone starts thinking like this, and then they start to perceive everyone around them as horrifying philosophical zombies made of paper mache forever.
I wish no less of a fate on such behavioral solipsists.
The problem is it can be a specific disorder, a delusion common to multiple diagnoses, or a niche philosophical theory, and they all use the word solipsism as a descriptor with minimally differentiated context.
Are you thinking of the Capgras Delusion? It was originally specifically the delusion that someone you knew had been replaced by an alien/robot, but it looks like it might have been expanded in common parlance to include the "everybody else is simulated" thing.
Huh! I was unaware of this extended terminology. To be clear I was thinking of it in the 'so decidedly self-centered that other people aren't even people to you' sort of way, rather than anything beyond their control.
Oh these people are mostly just philosophical solipsists by choice not people with genuine disorders but it'd be sad if someone who could genuinely benefit from help gets sucked in to the cult of dime store faux-narcissists.
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A disgusting, entitled relic of an era better off slain, vainly thinking he'll be more than who he actually is, and thinking "if I can't have it, then no one should."
The joy of discovery shall never die so long as life persists!
I wish no less of a fate on such behavioral solipsists.