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In Plato's Cave, the shadows on the wall are allegorically very much the physical world and the outside world under the light of the sun is the world of Forms, because Plato was the arch-idealist.

Materialism != Dialectical Materialism

That's kinda the whole point. The body and the mind (base/superstructure, cause/effect, whatever it is you want to call it) are linked through a dialectical relationship. What those things are doesn't matter, because it's their conflict that creates the Real.

The grounding factor of Dialectical Materialism is that the movement of the dialectic is observable in material reality and you can therefore infer things about the relationship between those concepts from that movement.

From the point of metaphysics there's something like a "soul" in you, only limited by material conditions.

That's a metaphysical stance but not at all synonymous with metaphysics. What you're describing is dualism.

They'll ask you: "So you don't believe in sound? You don't think heat exists?

These are bad examples because they are just types of moving particles.

The other two are incorrect about diamat not being materialist though, it's just a version of materialism

that's usual materialism. dialectical materialism operates on society development level, and individual as an atom of that society. laws customs rituals appear out of development of material forces of production and exchange, the mind typical materialists accept quite readily, not for nothing they were imagining it as a series of gears or whatever. the materialists may think (and quite often do) that all that society structure is purely mind exercise, the gheist of the people or institutions or whatever, thus marxists call them idealists.

you may think quite easily disconnected from material reality (say, writing fantasy book), but you may not act in discordance with reality or, by extension, society (thus if you are reborn in slave holding society, unless you have readily made cavalry and cannons and good ideas about crops and crops themselves you are unlikely to progress anywhere from that)

lmao holy christ. usually you only see this kind of blatant support for CSA on 4chan.

"I have repeatedly protested the lynch-mob hysteria that dogs the issue of man-boy love. In Sexual Personae, I argued that male pedophilia is intricately intertwined with the cardinal moments of Western civilization."

"actually child abuse is the lynchpin of western civilization!"

but imagine thinking that's a good thing, my god

Paglia jokingly commented in an interview in 1992: "In the case of Sinéad O'Connor, child abuse was justified". This was her response to the singer's action on Saturday Night Live, where she tore up a picture of the pope in protest of the unfolding child sexual abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church

In 1993, Paglia signed a manifesto supporting NAMBLA, a pederasty and pedophilia advocacy organization.

In 1994, Paglia supported lowering the legal age of consent to 14. She noted in a 1995 interview with pro-pedophile activist Bill Andriette, "I fail to see what is wrong with erotic fondling with any age."

In 1993, Paglia signed a manifesto supporting NAMBLA

Lmfao how did anyone let this person near a pen. Let alone actually be published or listened to at all...

My liberal arts classes always emphasized that it was neoliberalism that was bad because “Walmart”, but liberalism was great because “freedom”.

I hate the midichlorians but something creates the force.

It would have been better off left untouched in lore though.

I read a story set in a magical world, written by a commie, with essentially this viewpoint, and it was the best story in that setting I've ever read. Which is a low bar considering what the setting is, but still.

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