What books can I read to understand why low IQ people are incapable of being critical and increasingly are developing a heard instinct that rejects the idea of criticism itself as something bad?

It's a very bizarre social phenomenon that I don't understand, and for which there seems to have little precedent in the history of consumption to understand. (I have consulted Bernays, Lipman, Marx, nothing this foundationally retarded is contemplated)

Is branded media the new tribe/"territory" in Land's promised deterritorialized future? Is that what's going on?
Who writes about this?

ugh just let people enjoy things

>head visor with 24/7 porn streaming access
>auto masturbator
>liquified fastfood iv attached to wrist

>>24472364 (OP)
Pretty obviously late capitalism attempting to shutdown any filters on unfettered consumerism.

No one with good taste would say "let people enjoy things."

>>24472538
real capitalism has never been tried

Intellectuals overestimate the plebs and the plebs overestimate themselves.

To answer your question Nietzsche writes about The Last Man and the 'herd-men'.

>>24472364 (OP)
>What books can I read to understand why low IQ people are incapable of being critical and increasingly are developing a heard instinct that rejects the idea of criticism itself as something bad?
Dare I say you may be misinterpreting the backlash to criticism as an arbitrary herd instinct and more of a question of "Is the criticism is productive or relevant?" or "Does the fault being criticized outweigh the aspects of the subject that appeal to the beholder?"

>>24472364 (OP)
Plato had a lot to say about Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

"And when they have emptied and swept clean the soul of him who is now in their power and who is being initiated by them in great mysteries, the next thing is to bring back to their house insolence and anarchy and waste and impudence in bright array having garlands on their heads, and a great company with them, hymning their praises and calling them by sweet names; insolence they term breeding, and anarchy liberty, and waste magnificence, and impudence courage. And so the young man passes out of his original nature, which was trained in the school of necessity, into the freedom and libertinism of useless and unnecessary pleasures... If any one says to him that some pleasures are the satisfactions of good and noble desires, and others of evil desires, and that he ought to use and honour some and chastise and master the others --whenever this is repeated to him he shakes his head and says that they are all alike, and that one is as good as another... he lives from day to day indulging the appetite of the hour; and sometimes he is lapped in drink and strains of the flute; then he becomes a water-drinker, and tries to get thin; then he takes a turn at gymnastics; sometimes idling and neglecting everything, then once more living the life of a philosopher; often he-is busy with politics, and starts to his feet and says and does whatever comes into his head; and, if he is emulous of any one who is a warrior, off he is in that direction, or of men of business, once more in that. His life has neither law nor order; and this distracted existence he terms joy and bliss and freedom; and so he goes on... he may truly be called the democratic man..."
https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.9.viii.html

>>24472364 (OP)
Aren't you describing basic human social instincts? People have always been tribalistic and quick to view criticism as an attack.

>>24472364 (OP)
"Just let people enjoy things" implies a permission you needed to enjoy something that is denied by someone else criticising it. It's self-betrayal, you are going to be this person who appreciates things despite their flaws or despite it being seen as juvenile and balancing that with growing up and developing better taste but you're also going to let one mean comment stop you? You took all these stories and hobbies other people discard as your charge to conserve and appreciate and you're ashamed of it? Shame on you. If you are an approval-seeking person the only thing you deserve is to not get anyone's approval until you learn to do things on your own initiative. They want a reward for inhabiting a "vibe shift" that loves the unloved without actually doing any of the work and certainly without developing the eye for what unloved things do and don't deserve a second look.

>>24472364 (OP)
tl;dr OP wrote an essay-length takedown of pop lit only to get hit with "Who asked?" and hasn't emotionally recovered.

Culture of Narcissism by Lasch.

>heard instinct

It's brainlet cope.

If you were articulate or understood things you would be able to make an eloquent rebuttal to any criticism, and even if your rebuttal were flawed, you would be able to beat your advisory with pure rhetoric. However, most people are not articulate, and cant even fake being articulate without making a complete fool of themselves. So they disengage. Why be thoroughly thrashed by a high IQ Anon who has so completely dismantled your entire worldview that you cant even begin to pick apart his argument? Just pretend you dont care. Then you can always be right, even about things you know nothing about. This isnt a new phenomenon. People were pike this long before the internet, but now we live in much closer proximity with retards.

>>24473609
Sometimes the highest IQ move is to disengage when you know debate will be fruitless ;^)

>>24472364 (OP)
The concept is a relativist/subjectivist one, wherein one person enjoying one thing is equal to all other people enjoying all other things. Stating the massive gap between calorie count and nutritional value in fast food is objectively correct, and a change in diet may save a Man's life in an extreme case, but who are you to tell a fat guy dying of heart problems that his eating habits are worse than that of a healthy man? Aren't we all just men? Where's your authority for stating that Dante is better than whatever light novel slop is out this month? Why do you care so much, just let people enjoy things bro?
It really does come back to Plato's argument on democracy, where there's no distinction made between beneficial ans harmful pleasures, and thus the harmful ones, more numerous and more easily accessible, will inevitably rise to tyranny.

The meme in OP refers to autistic nitpicking over the canon of shitty comic books and children’s fantasy stories, not to criticism as a whole.
It’s a rebuttal to the Comic Book Guy
>in episode 3 season 2 Kirk said xyz but in the new movie he does abc so the new movie is bad and you are bad for liking it it’s not a response to FR Leavis

>>24472673
Are you telling me that most aristocrats from 200 years ago would get upset over what peasants were up to?

>>24473722
It's about a guy mocking someone for watching sports, which is a fine use of it and had nothing to do with critique at all. It was other retards online that used it to shutdown criticism.

>>24473750
>It's about a guy mocking someone for watching sports
Oh, then it's gay. Watching sports (or the TV in general) is for NPCs. Those people know more about their favorite sports teams than their own constitutional rights. Also, not that anon.

>>24473764
I remember being 14.

>>24473785
>it's good that masses of people don't know their rights and that they're easily distracted by over-paid drama queen grown men faking fouls in sports games and kvetching about how unjust america is while they get paid millions to play a sport
Playing a sport, based.
Watching sports, soi numale faggotry.

Go watch your circus and bread while the Roman empire takes away all your rights, dipshit normalfaggot cancer.

>>24473788
Enjoying your summer break, little buddy?

>>24473788
Both of those characters embody soi numale faggotry, the other guy is a typical reddit faggot that takes a strange amount of pride in not knowing anything about sports, hence calling any sport 'sportsball'.
It's still gay on account of being an Adam Ellis comic thoughever

>>24472364 (OP)
>what book can I pretend I've read to claim I'm not low IQ too

>>24473785
Quick question, what does watching sports actually add to someone's life? Why should i be okay with people using the opium of television to numb themselves to how shit their lives really are? Most sports viewers spend at least three hours watching games every week during the season. In any culture where people value their time or energy, it would be embarrassing. No wonder people feel so empty when they waste away all the time allotted to them where they could be building up hobbies, learning skills, doing actual fun things with friends or family, and instead they doze off in front of the TV most of the weekend.

>>24473841
My life is pretty great and I still like watching a couple fellas kick or toss a ball for a couple hours. There is also a social aspect which can be enriching in itself. The idea that every second of one's life must be spend at maximum existential efficiency based on your personal perspective if worth is laughable busybody pretentiousness. My man, how many precious hours of your life have you wasted shitposting in front of a screen? The same people you scorn for wasting their time on sports would rightfully mock you for wasting your time on self-important masturbation instead of engaging in real life, socializing.

>>24473841
Quick question, how would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?

so... a season of sports ties in well to traditional narrative story structure. this is on top of the social element and GAMBLING. it makes perfect sense, and even people with high iq can enjoy. (this is what i tell myself to maintain humility)

>>24473907
The fact that someone can't understand the appeal of spectator sports beyond "low IQ bread and circus" is itself the betrayal of a low IQ.

>>24473797
Coward.

>>24473876
lmao, this pathetic sports-watching subhuman can't even respond to anyone directly. All he has is deflection and non-sequiturs. Do the world a favor and kill yourself.

>>24473722
If a movie is set in the same canon as the series and taking advantage of that by featuring the characters and setting of the series, then contradicting said series is an objective flaw. It might not ruin the movie but is absolutely a fair criticism to make. It's not that hard to admit that there is a flaw in a story or a product you enjoyed, having to resort "it doesn't matter" as an argument is counter-productive because if it didn't actually matter you wouldn't have responded. People might not like him, but Comic Book Guy is right.

>>24473876
Are you genuinely unable to comprehend this hypothetical, that you think it's some sort of gotcha? I'd feel hungry, is how I'd feel.

>>24472364 (OP)
I'm much more baffled by the fact that a supposedly cultivated individual would think this phenomenon is "bizarre" and has "little precedent"

>>24473841
>In any culture where people value their time or energy, it would be embarrassing
every civilization has enjoyed watching people compete and perform feats of athleticism since time immemorial. I sincerely hope you're underage.

>>24473976
Protestant Europe criticized everything including every authority even during Catholic rule and before it. This fear of intellectual conflict was only normalized because women and brownoids have taken over.

>>24474049
What "fear of intellectual conflict?" People argue and debate more than ever thanks to the internet.

>>24472396
>head visor

>>24472364 (OP)
>why low IQ people are incapable of being critical and increasingly are developing a heard instinct
This sentence
You can just read this sentence over and over

>>24474066
We're on the only website that used to follow the classical liberal protestant tradition of free debate but we have to self-censor now thanks to women and brownoids. When it comes to every other facet of society it's even worse and most obvious in places like my country where this tradition of free debate was most engrained.

>>24473841
>Quick question, what does watching sports actually add to someone's life?
Its fun and easy. I go to the games and have fun with my friends and family.
Its an easy way to access community in an era where community is increasingly difficult to find.
Also its just cool to watch. There is a lot of tension in sports.
>No wonder people feel so empty when they waste away all the time allotted to them where they could be building up hobbies, learning skills, doing actual fun things with friends or family, and instead they doze off in front of the TV most of the weekend.
If you were secure in these things yourself you would know how silly this sounds.

>rejects the idea of criticism itself as something bad
Thats not exactly true. They might as well find a critical voice and embrace it above anything else. And yes perhaps they wont be critical of the critical voice.

>>24474107
>but we have to self-censor now thanks to women and brownoids
On 4chan, self-censor what exactly?

>>24474066
the circle of "acceptable debate" has never been narrower thanks to people claiming that any criticism of their behaviour is a direct affront to, not even their right to life, but the very concept of their objective existence.

>>24474180
From that framing, it appears that what is narrow is really the circle of off-limits debate topics, usually things in the realm of "Are nonwhites human and do they deserve equal rights?" The circle of debate only appears narrow to you because those are the only topics you're interested in debating.

>>24474049
>>24474107
>>24474180
you couldn't be more of a pseud even if you tried

>>24474193
thank you for proving my point

>>24473874
If you spend your life watching niggers throw rubber balls around then you don't have any right to tell anyone about what is waste of time and what isn't, since you're a worthless subhuman.

>>24474266
These topics aren't off-limits out of fear of debate, your stance used to be the default and ultimately lost the debate. Your pet coping mechanism is gauche. Get over it.

>>24474270
The thing is only one of us is actually interested in asserting the other is wasting time and is a worthless subhuman. Your opinion has about as much worth to me as someone else's crusted cum tissue.

>>24474280
Hey that nigger is throwing a ball over there, go clap or something. Go nigger! I love niggers!

>>24472364 (OP)
Plato continuously has Socrates encounter NPCs who would rather abruptly end the conversation than to honestly take a look at the criticism levied.

why do you need a book to tell you some people are dumb? i don't get it

>>24472364 (OP)
>I like [thing].
>Well I DON'T and you shouldn't either! In this essay, I will-
>My enjoyment of [thing] is based on my personal subjective tastes.
>W-why are you so afraid of criticism! You owe a debate like the government owes me a 10/10 virgin tradwife!!

>>24473926
It really doesn’t matter if some Marvel film contradicts some comic book. Sure, gatekeeping nerds might be upset, but it’s irrelevant to everyone else. They are movies to watch on planes

>>24474339
Well sure, because those are two different continuities. But if the film contradicts a previous Marvel film in the same continuity (as is often the case with these films), that is an objective flaw as previously stated.

>>24474339
I instinctively misread that as "They are movies to watch on phones."

>>24474293
To be clear since this sentiment has been repeatedly expressed in the thread.

There is precedent for not wanting your personality, habits, appearance, politics, etc to be criticized.

There is not precedent for the idea that criticism itself is bad without consideration for degree, subject matter, or whether the person has a relationship to the thing being criticized.

>>24472364 (OP)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Foil

"Jewelers often put shiny metal foil underneath a gem to make the stone shine brighter, or display them on dark velvet to bring attention to their brightness."

"A literary foil serves a similar purpose; it is to provide contrast to another character by accentuating their differences"

These are our foils. No need explaining; without them you wouldn't appreciate the effort you do in raising your own mind.

OP, I suppose you want to read about it to do something about it ? It is pointless, like Quixote, you are trying to find windmills of low-attention drones and aloof consumers.
So if we can't fight for them, maybe we should just appreciate them for the foils they are ?
(I struggle with it too to be honest)

>>24472364 (OP)
brave new world. you're in a bernard MARX situation, where you can see the code running in people's heads, show it to them but they still run the program.

>>24475633
also possible that his first name benard is inspired by bernays since he wrote crystallizing public opinion and propaganda in 23&28, while bnw was 1932. almost everything in that society is how ours works.

>>24474193
>Are nonwhites human and do they deserve equal rights?
Given the dogmatic answer 'yes' to this question has come to shape all Western polities why is it out of bounds?

>>24472396
>>auto masturbator

Misread this as "audio masturbator".
Had a decent exhale of air from the mental image of a person saying, "just let people enjoy things", while they wear backward headphones that loudly blare pornographic audio.

>>24474168
>>24474107
And here you are, the exact subhumans that ruined everything trying to regulate opinions with pathetic longhouse tactics instead of even trying to sincerely discuss anything, while pretending this phenomena doesn't exist.

>>24476031
The answer isn't "yes" out of dogma. For literal centuries, the answer was "no," the prospect was challenged and lost out to liberalism. It's the intellectual equivalent of going "Ponder this... What if the Earth is flat and the cosmos are geocentric? Pretty novel, eh!" And acting like people are telling you to fuck off out of dogma and fear of debate.

>>24476152
Nonwhites weren't proven to be human and deserve equal rights so it's dogma.

>>24476293
Yes they were, which is why your position is rightfully considered unserious and unworthy of further entertainment.

>>24476298
Not even possible since nobody "deserves" anything anway.

>>24476303
Human, you mong.

>>24476311
Lousy humans that don't "deserve" anything.

>>24476321
You leave me unconvinced.

>>24476327
You didn't make me donate all my savings to seawatch either.

>>24476355
Didn't ask you to, weirdo.

>>24476366
Africans/Asians drowning is bad doe. they're humans and shit

>>24476411
Yes, it is bad and donating to effective humanitarian institutions is a generally good thing, but nobody here is telling you personally to give all of your life savings to one particular humanitarian institution.
This is yet another reason why the notion that people are "afraid" to debate the likes of you is such a joke. You're unserious and you know it, so your only course of action is to have silly little tantrums.

>>24476426
Obviously mentioning something as otrageous as donating all my savings to seawatch was a shitty joke and the meaning of my reply just you didn't convince me either after your post which didn't pose a question or argument and apparently expected me to put in effort you didn't put in.

>>24476463
There's no point in wasting time trying to convince a bad faith actor of anything, which is why that conversation gets shut down. That's my point.

>>24476152
Internet jannies don't sperg out over flat earth claims. Nobody spends billions shutting down anyone even hinting at considering the question as an intellectual exercise. There's nothing anyone can say to mindless brainwashed retards like you. It's impossible to even try to discuss anything sincerely. The subversive conditioning that completely saturates your mind also saturates every facet of humanity and any attempt to even point that out will just result in "no" followed by dishonest attempts to subvert all communication and thought. You're living cancer, absolute evil possessing a human body.

>>24476634
Damn you've changed my mind anon. Until now I think oppressing people was bad, but you have made such a good case that your group specifically and exclusively should be opposed and treated as subhuman.
Are you satisfied with this conclusion?

>>24473841
>Why should i be okay with
It doesn't affect you, and you can't change things for the better.
Grow up.

>>24472364 (OP)
Are we just talking about pleb normies who don't make consuming a big part of their life and just want to enjoy a popcorn flick on Netflix, which offends pretentious art snobs?

Or are we talking about actually low IQ proles who think star wars and children's cartoons are the height of literature and consume regardless of if it's good, and will clap and defend big corporations.

Or are we talking about REAL low IQ troglodytes, the dysgenic, the non governable, lowest denominator who cannot function within society, who scream at you on the subway, you shambles around like zombies, those addicted to har drugs and refuse social services and spit at people trying to help them because their brain can only understand here and now.

I'm less concerned about the people who consume gringoyslop after working 2 jobs, than I am about the scum if the street who make my country feel like a 3rd world zombie crises.

>>24477967
Who the hell is saying "Just let people enjoy things" about belligerent mentally ill/drug addicted people on public transportation?
Imagine talking about "low IQ people" while struggling this hard with baby's first context clues.

>>24477997
Because you're a toddler who thinks your consumption habits correlate to IQ, but your entire post reeks of midwit behavior. A dumbass who thinks consuming anime makes him a "high IQ" patrician of art and culture. You sound extremely insecure.

The people saying "just let people enjoy things" aren't low IQ, they just have shit taste.
Ever high IQ individual I've ever met has shit taste in media. If anything high IQ people are worse than normies.

>>24472364 (OP)
What a stupid thread, he folks if you constantly lie, manipulate, shower people with all manner of rhetorical tricks and psychological manipulations, if you act like a constant hypocrite, if you directly attack and insult someone, people will zone out....

People do not and will not engage with you if they have the impression you are peddling bullshit and this will end up ending any kind of debate with well meaning people as well.

>>24476634
>Internet jannies don't sperg out over flat earth claims. Nobody spends billions shutting down anyone even hinting at considering the question as an intellectual exercise. There's nothing anyone can say to mindless brainwashed retards like you. It's impossible to even try to discuss anything sincerely. The subversive conditioning that completely saturates your mind also saturates every facet of humanity and any attempt to even point that out will just result in "no" followed by dishonest attempts to subvert all communication and thought. You're living cancer, absolute evil possessing a human body.

Here a prime example of the kind of person people will just shut out. Why in God's name would anyone seriously engage with a person like this? Clearly this Anon is manipulative, mean-spirited and most likely a total hypocrite. Imagine you are the average joe and you have to engage with him. Why would you. He is clearly your enemy.

>>24472364 (OP)
nice old lady: here young man, would you like a piece of cake, I baked some for my knitting club and have a bit left over
autistic child (you): hmmm, might I suggest next time adding more flour and using less sugar, its far too sweet
nice old lady: *storms off*
autistic child (you): heh cant people take criticism anymore? Obviously the point of life is to be constantly looking for ways to improve in literally everything and never once doing something just because you think it might be fun

>>24476634
It's not really subversive conditioning if it's the dominant paradigm for our entire civilization. At that point it's just "conditioning" and the one being subversive is you.

>>24472364 (OP)
Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset.
The mass man is incapable of relating to anything outside of himself. This means that he's hostile to any kind of ideal or principle.

Most people on 4chan are terrible

>>24478021
Wrong reply or bot?