Comment on Pavlov's conditioning

• smooth_tea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Jfc, to what end? All this retroactive cancelling of dead people is just diddling yourself for feel-good reasons. Get over it and be different instead of waving some flag that says you are different.

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  • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Mate learning from history’s jackasses is how we move forward as a society. Cancelling? The fuck are we cancelling? You said it yourself, fucko is dead, cancelled by life, you don’t get much more “cancelled” than that.

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    • smooth_tea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Move forward as a society, that’s a good one. Please do tell how you’re going to change your ways now that you know someone famous did something heinous. Fuck all is going to happen, and all of this unearthing of our evil past to better ourselves is just a form of self delusion and shock value, typical for the outrage culture of these days.

      The only reaction to this new found wisdom is “and then what”? And if you took two seconds to analyze the situation instead of getting on your high horse to start a new crusade you’d probably come to the same conclusion.

      Cancelling? The fuck are we cancelling?

      What is being implied here is that because he did something bad, all of a sudden that has to be mentioned every time he’s brought up. It’s completely pointless and just a testimony to how insecure we are as a society. It’s like having to cover up female ankles in case we get “urges”. It’s completely ridiculous.

      This is the not how we move forward as a society, in fact it is a form of regression and infantility. An inability to hold two opposing ideas in our heads and instead throwing out the baby with the bath water because everyone constantly needs to reassure the person next to them how virtuous they are.

      A progressive society does not need to retroactively change history, it can accept the imperfections of the past in the knowledge that we’ve already changed.

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      • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        A progressive society does not need to retroactively change history, it can accept the imperfections of the past in the knowledge that we’ve already changed.

        How is pointing out the heinous shit changing history? If anything, it’s accepting the imperfections of the past and acknowledging we have changed by calling out the callousness of its prior implementation and calling out what to avoid… you are literally contradicting yourself.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Out of curiosity, what do you believe has had a larger negative impact on your life:

        1. Rando’s on the internet citing Pavlov being a dick? Or
        2. You wasting the time to rant about that for paragraphs?

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      • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        We move forward as a society by recognizing that jackasses in history participated in jackassery, and by learning that some of those jackasses were framed as “good” or “leaders” or “briliant” or whatever were, in reality, pretty fucked up individuals, so that we may understand our history isn’t as flawless and unbloody as we maybe learned as children.

        For instance, I was taught throughout my childhood that Henry Ford was a revolutionary leader and the inventor of the automobile. Found it a bit odd that, later on, they moved the goalpost, so that instead of having invented the automobile, he invented the assembly line! He didn’t even do that.

        In fact, Henry Ford was an antisemitic jackass that took the money he made by exploiting people at the right time with the right technology, and poured it into the stupid concept of a town in South America, exploiting/displacing natives to produce rubber. Something atleast The Deuce had the sense to dismantle, but only after decades of trying and failing.

        Acknowledging the darkness in our history instead of pretending it’s not there is how we admit that we’ve done some fucked up shit as a species, and how we know we still have a long way to go, how we know there is yet work to be done, how we move forward as a species.

        Have a good day :)

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      • jandar_fett@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Quit inhaling your own farts.

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  • jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How about… both?

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  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I get what you’re saying, but I personally don’t find it tiring. It’s just a part of contextualizing history. I think of it as a reminder of the progress we’ve made (I hope) - that we can put an asterisk beside someone’s name in the history books.

    Kind of like how it’s impossible to talk about the history of hypothermia research without acknowledging its grossly unethical source.

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    • Twelve20two@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Oh you mean actually learning from history to prevent repeating atrocities

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  • Yearly1845@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How are you supposed to be different if no one ever tells you what was wrong the first time?

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