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Steve Dustcircle 🌹 @[email protected] · 2025-08-19 · 11:28 UTC

Is #Monogamy Natural or Just a #SocialConstruct? So what’s the deal?

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/is-monogamy-natural-or-just-a-social-construct/

#monogamy #socialconstruct

Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @[email protected] · 2025-08-10 · 10:52 UTC

#ChatGPT is a more successful penny-farthing; a video essay:
https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ

#ChatGPT #AI #llm #GenerativeAI #AIChatbot #AIEthics #AISafety #OpenAI #Anthropic #SCOT #sociology #Bijker #BigTech #Constructionism #socialconstruct #VideoEssay

#chatgpt #ai #llm #generativeai #aichatbot #aiethics

anubis2814 @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 17:34 UTC

#Money , Is both power and a symbol of your effort. Within a certain amount, is a useful method of dividing the commons, trading goods and services and allowing people control over their lives and choices. Its something you earned.
After a certain amount it stops being something about what you earned and much more about power. That power now has the power over other people instead of just power over oneself. This allows you to change the rules of the game, put pressure on desperate people to sell their labor for less, and ensure the laws don't apply to you. Up to a certain point like an analogy its very useful and beneficial, after a certain limit it starts to break down and becomes at best useless and at worst dangerous.
Its why #Proudhon called for money to be replaced with single use labor credits, that couldn't be used to create more money off of others.
#socialconstruct #capitalism

#money #socialconstruct #proudhon

Androcat @[email protected] · 2024-11-12 · 12:18 UTC

The funny thing about social constructs is that they bring two distinct meanings of the (extremely problematic) term "objective" into direct conflict.

Specifically, the meaning of 'objective' that is "existing intrinsically, plainly detectable, clearly segmentable from its immediate environs, etc. etc." and the meaning of 'objective' that is "agreed upon by all members of a group, etc. etc."

What makes a social construct a construct is that it has no physical particulars, is not plainly detectable, cannot be clearly segmented away from its immediate environs (if it can even be said to have immediate environs), i.e. it is not an 'objectively existing entity', and in fact it's entire existence consists of the 'objective' agreement or objectively held belief that it exists.

So, that's what humans are like, if you were wondering why things are shit.

Humans are all about those 'objectively' non-existing 'objective' existences.

Ugh.

p.s. in case you were wondering, both those senses of 'objective' are pretty much bollocks.

#objective #socialConstruct #borders #nation #Institution #law #philosophy @philosophy