Thread for mundane ironists

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

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And here is what would happen if Slavoj Žižek “steel manned” the trilemma of evil to be structured after his trilemma of the Communist regime: Of the three features: omniscience, omnibenevolence, omnipotence—it was possible to combine only two, never all three. If God were omniscient and omnibenevolent, they were not omnipotent. If God were omnipotent and omnibenevolent, they were not omniscient. If God were omniscient and omnipotent, they were not omnibenevolent. (compare to the Žižek trilemma under the politics heading:

Trilemma - Wikipedia

Resolution to the trilemma:

In essentials unity (yellow), in nonessentials liberty (blue), in all things charity (red). I mean …. if you’re not gonna be a dictator (aka remote controller, per Ecmandu) and abuse your power and violate everyone’s consent, essentially nuking the Venn of Import and muting the problem of evil with “Why does something exist rather than nothing?”

Also this:

¿Capitalism, Communism, or Kingdom of Ends?

Step I: we all stay separate and powerful over our own dot of influence — isolated from all the other dots Step II: we expand our dot of influence to encompass all the dots and it becomes an all-encompassing sphere (within communication range) Step III: we could take turns recognizing the unique power of each dot (within communication range) in a trade-off way, and interact rather than staying completely separate or just conglomerating into one that negates all the others (which is done by bot…