It feels like the entirety of makes my personality is a show I watched or a random ass historical event I researched once or memorizing video game glitches; every part of me just feels like another cliche, and I really have nothing special about me at all. So tell me, anons, what the hell does a "personality" even mean anyways, because I feel like anything I would call my personality is just too shallow to be considered.
It's a meme.
Aknowledging that personality exists means aknowledging that different people will act differently in the same situation. Some people are afraid to lick metal pipes when it's cold, some don't.
Personality is "how will you behave".
Personality is your philosophical ideas, political ideas, economic ideas, your lifestyle, your interests, things you like, your culture, things you dislike, how you behave, what you do, your spiritual/religious ideas, etc.
None of these things are light topics OP. Unless you choose to be nihilistic and say that culture does't matter, culture matters a great deal. OP maybe you think that your interests which define your personality are unsubstantial. In that case you should try and do what you are really interested in and genuinely care about. Be true to thyself. If you are not sure what you really want, try and find it.
I think I've found my calling, and it is what I do most of the time. However, there is still maybe things I could do which are significant and different. Maybe that in addition to what I am already passionate about would make me happy. Or, and this I can't imagine, in the future I will find a different passion and no longer be passionate about what I care about now.
>be nihilistic and say that culture does't matter
This seems to be a left-wing idea I think, for leftists don't care about preserving culture, especially if the culture in question is white culture. Lefties don't seem to care about whites being replaced (by non-whites) in white countries or America. I think that culture should be preserved and British people for example have the right to preserve their own culture and exist as a race.
Tearing down statues is nothing new, and in America it is dumb that it happens. Some might see lefties destroying statues that are related to the old culture of whiteness in the USA as removing "oppression". However, this argument is retard, for no one really cares that much about statues or thinks that way in regards to them. Destruction of statues in 21st century USA is dumb though, for it is needless destruction of history, information, and culture. It is also childish to do that because it comes from the whole cancel culture nonsense. Whatever happened to respecting the man but not some of his ideas? Now it is just "if I don't like one specific thing this person did/thought then he should burn in hell for all of eternity."
There was an episode of "The West Wing" which I liked about this idea of respect or recognition of a person even though you disagree with him in one or more areas. I think the episode was related to Hawaii. So yeah destruction of statues is dumb because it is vandalism and other reasons. What replaces the destroyed statues? Nothing but the modern day corporate culture of McDonalds and globalism.
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Personality is memetics and genetics.
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Yes, personality is seen in the fact that people do/think differently in response to the same thing. Their doing or thinking is caused by certain personality traits that they have. These traits cause certain trends in what they do.
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Do I think that any statues within reason should be destroyed? No. Nazi statues were destroyed in Germany and Communist statues were destroyed in Russia. Even then, speaking with the mindset of a historian and archivist, things maybe could have went differently. The Nazi or communist culture and history could have been preserved by putting the statues in a museum or at least taking photo, videos, and documentation of the statues, and then selling the statues to someone.
While destruction of those Nazi or communist statues might have been dumb, the destruction of statues in the US was even dumber. When said communist and Nazi statues were torn down it had a somewhat sensical natural flow to it. When Nazism in Germany failed people immediately destroyed the statues because some people really didn't like it, but were those people the citizens or foreign forces (e.g. the allies)? If the citizens of Germany decided to remove the Nazi statues instead of foreign allied forces then that would be better. When the Soviet Union failed people basically immediately torn down statues of Stalin and Lenin. Joe Stalin slaughtering your entire village was motivation for people to not want to look at Joe.
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In the United States the statues were not immediately destroyed because people didn't really care that much. They were however torn down like more than a century later.
That sorta dumb collection of videos hosted on Amazon's servers known as "Netflix" brought up a stupid counter point. In the film "Fuck 2020" or whatever it was called some brought up this idea, basically: "destruction of statues in the US was not the destruction of history but the making of history." I could cut off my erect dick and then quickly shove it up a 12-year-old girl's ass, get caught for all of, then go to prison/jail or maybe a mental institution; sure I would make history, but the history I would be making would be retarded. Similarly, the history that the destruction of statues in the US makes is one of globalism, censorship, cancel culture, and being childish. The idea of destroying cultural land marks because of the history they represent is not so far off from destroying books/digital data because of the history and ideas that they represent. One might even see the politics-related destruction of physical entities as a furtherance of the ubiquitous political destruction of digital data by big tech (e.g. YouTube). So wow you did it Reddit, you acted like big tech minions and destroyed statues near where you live! You did it Reddit, you ended racism! Thank you cancel culture for making the area you live in more ugly and less based in history and reality.
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*someone brought up this idea
Big tech basically normalized book burning, and then angry sour people go out and destroy statues, how dumb. Also the song "Static On The Radio" by Jim White might further my point about how destruction of statues is dumb, especially when your generation is significantly disconnected from the relevant cultural context (or they just misunderstand history):
And I know (it’s a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead)
And I know (it’s a crime to weave your wishes into what they said)
And I know (only fools venture where them spirits tread)
'Cause I know (every word, every sound bouncing 'round my head)
Is just static on the radio
(Everything I think I know is just static on the radio)
>It feels like the entirety of makes my personality is a show I watched or a random ass historical event I researched once or memorizing video game glitches
Things that you learned are not really your personality. Your personality is how you relate to those things that you learned. Maybe you think that TV shows, random ass historical events, and video game glitches are trivial. My personality might be different from yours on this point as I do not think that all of those things are trivial.
Well this thread has been very "Phenomenology of Spirt" (jk I didn't really read that book), and it also made me think of how I thought about "Rick and Morty" in the past. In an episode of that series there is a microscopic civilization of intelligent life forms living in what is basically a car battery. But what is the minimum size of an intelligent lifeform in reality? We currently know that the minimum volume needed to have intelligent life is that of a watermelon or small watermelon (the size of the human brain). You basically need the volume of a watermelon, a healthy circulatory system, sensory organs, sensory experience, and other biological stuff to have intelligent life. All of this (maybe minus the circulatory system) fits into the volume of a watermelon. I wonder if one intelligent life form could exist on a smaller scale or even on a microscope scale. Maybe I will research this with duck.com.
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