[The Soup Nazi]

 

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[!@#$%!]

why wasn't it morrissey instead

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

why wasn't it morrissey instead

Why wasn't Henry Kissinger instead. DIE ALREADY.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Why wasn't Henry Kissinger instead. DIE ALREADY.

weird world that we live in, kissinger has become a voice of reason these days, and we need him...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...-i/ar-AA1bnhLd

i know, i know, i've gone off on another inappropriate tangent, zero social compass, i'm sorry and i'll leave it at that... please continue.

[Kuhb]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

why wasn't it morrissey instead

Why do you wish that?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Kuhb

Why do you wish that?

because the mammalian brain generates rituals and cognitive biases and superstitions, and system 1 does not deal logically with either statistics or death.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

kissinger has become a voice of reason these days, and we need him...

No, we don't. I don't care if he supports the Green New Deal now. Fuck him.

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

because the mammalian brain generates rituals and cognitive biases and superstitions, and system 1 does not deal logically with either statistics or death.

Which doesn't answer Kuhb's question...

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Which doesn't answer Kuhb's question...

well yes it does. it was all implied in the premises. but i will try to spell it out.

system 1 is the automatic brain, system 2 is the one that performs logical reasoning and mathematics. system 1 is very useful, not always accurate. system 2 requires more effort, has a different way of being dumb.

see, a man dies because of a number of reasons. in his case it was pancreatic cancer (fuck). he was 59, a former addict, who knows what other risk factors.

but because he was a member of the smiths, the mammalian brain does not see a man of 59 or a former addict or his particular risk factors for that death.

instead it sees "a member of the smiths dies"

so in the mammalian brain it's as if "death" (in system 1 often not even an event, but a kind of person, "the grim reaper") was picking out of a member of that specific group. a group that was not even together anymore, so it's not like they were all in a tour bus crash, and faced death as a group. but the irrational mind does not care, and sees a connection anyway.

in that irrational/superstitious automatic interpretation then, the hopeful wish /prayer comes out as, "why couldn't death ("the grim reaper") have chosen nigel farage's obnoxious acolyte, instead of the nice guy?"

and that is a totally irrational and absurd wish of course, based on a false premise and inexistent causality and even implying the possibility of time travel ("correct the past").

but mammalian brains are wired like that, and system 2 only comes later and (maybe) says: "wait wait wait, you idiot, the world doesn't really work like that..."

unless you're a theologian, in which case your system 2 constructs a convoluted "logical" explanation to confirm, instead of deny, your absurd superstitions. (this is a special way in which system 2 can be dumb). and then finds a way to charge you money for it (this is clever i guess).

since i am not a theologian i can see the absurdities of my system 1, but since i am a mammal i cannot simply shut down its fantasies. i have to look at them first, react emotionally, and only later analyze them under the light of reason.

but yeah, tldr: it was a system 1 response. apophenia + wishful thinking at least: "grim reaper, you should have chosen the other one..." is a ridiculous ritual/prayer. and yet...

[The Soup Nazi]

^ Right, we get it, but you're still not answering why Morrissey. And I suppose the answer is because he became a Brexiteering For Britain turd. But in your words.

ETA: Christ on a stick, I just read part of that "interview" (the interviewer was most likely himself) he posted in his site in 2018 and it's fucking revolting. FUCK HIM.

I'll still love The Smiths until I die, though.

[The Soup Nazi]

Anyway, enough SHIT; let's keep this about Andy. So many indelible bass lines... A couple off the top of my head:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psa1ptpGTc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXqxjMkyQ4

[Kuhb]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

well yes it does. it was all implied in the premises. but i will try to spell it out.

system 1 is the automatic brain, system 2 is the one that performs logical reasoning and mathematics. system 1 is very useful, not always accurate. system 2 requires more effort, has a different way of being dumb.

see, a man dies because of a number of reasons. in his case it was pancreatic cancer (fuck). he was 59, a former addict, who knows what other risk factors.

but because he was a member of the smiths, the mammalian brain does not see a man of 59 or a former addict or his particular risk factors for that death.

instead it sees "a member of the smiths dies"

so in the mammalian brain it's as if "death" (in system 1 often not even an event, but a kind of person, "the grim reaper") was picking out of a member of that specific group. a group that was not even together anymore, so it's not like they were all in a tour bus crash, and faced death as a group. but the irrational mind does not care, and sees a connection anyway.

in that irrational/superstitious automatic interpretation then, the hopeful wish /prayer comes out as, "why couldn't death ("the grim reaper") have chosen nigel farage's obnoxious acolyte, instead of the nice guy?"

and that is a totally irrational and absurd wish of course, based on a false premise and inexistent causality and even implying the possibility of time travel ("correct the past").

but mammalian brains are wired like that, and system 2 only comes later and (maybe) says: "wait wait wait, you idiot, the world doesn't really work like that..."

unless you're a theologian, in which case your system 2 constructs a convoluted "logical" explanation to confirm, instead of deny, your absurd superstitions. (this is a special way in which system 2 can be dumb). and then finds a way to charge you money for it (this is clever i guess).

since i am not a theologian i can see the absurdities of my system 1, but since i am a mammal i cannot simply shut down its fantasies. i have to look at them first, react emotionally, and only later analyze them under the light of reason.

but yeah, tldr: it was a system 1 response. apophenia + wishful thinking at least: "grim reaper, you should have chosen the other one..." is a ridiculous ritual/prayer. and yet...

Imagine writing this out of fear of being honest with a random anonymous poster in a near dead forum. The stakes were so low, and yet...

[Kuhb]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Anyway, enough SHIT; let's keep this about Andy. So many indelible bass lines... A couple off the top of my head:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psa1ptpGTc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXqxjMkyQ4

He and Leslie Langston are the king and queen of '80s indie bass

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Kuhb

Imagine writing this out of fear of being honest with a random anonymous poster in a near dead forum. The stakes were so low, and yet...

what do you mean?

i don't need to imagine why i wrote what i wrote, and it definitely wasn't out of "fear", but curiosity ("how does the mind work?")

i assumed *everyone knew already* that morrissey has been an insufferable twat for a very long time, so i thought that detail didn't even need a mention.

still, it was an irrational and superstitious comment for me to make, and i was trying to sort how it came out that way out of my head. i entertained myself in the process and i'm satisfied with the results.

so how does your proposition about fear work? is it a call for a fiction writing contest or... something else?

[Kuhb]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

what do you mean?

i don't need to imagine why i wrote what i wrote, and it definitely wasn't out of "fear", but curiosity ("how does the mind work?")

i assumed *everyone knew already* that morrissey has been an insufferable twat for a very long time, so i thought that detail didn't even need a mention.

still, it was an irrational and superstitious comment for me to make, and i was trying to sort how it came out that way out of my head. i entertained myself in the process and i'm satisfied with the results.

so how does your proposition about fear work? is it a call for a fiction writing contest or... something else?

Just confirming that Morrissey should die due to being insuferable?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Kuhb

Just confirming that Morrissey should die due to being insuferable?

lmfao. you quote but don't read. at all.

[Kuhb]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

lmfao. you quote but don't read. at all.

Nerve touched

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Kuhb

Nerve touched

i'm sorry i touched a nerve, but truly, if you can't read words then you're just talking to your own shadow, and nobody here is or wants to be it.

anyway, moving on...

[Rob Instigator]

Andy Rourke (Smiths) and Mike Mills (REM) were the two most melodic, inventive bassists out of the 1980's music scene