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Over 30 years ago, this was said in Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
>Ferris: Not that I condone facism; or any ism for that matter. Isms, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in ‘Beatles’, I just believe in me.”
How can we stop associating ourselves with the various "isms" and just be our self?
For example, "determinism" is a type of belief system and now a "determinist" is a person who identifies with this new "ism".
Of course we all associate ourselves with ideas, but when the ideas take over the person, like when a Marxist loses their own identity for the sake of an abstract "ism", rather than just having an appreciation for Marx.
Discuss?
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Many isms are deeply flawed, but without any kind of values you do things like drive recklessly, kill a mother and daughter and fake amnesia in an attempt to avoid responsibility for what you did.
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>>1796857
http://phrontistery.info/isms.html
This site has like over 200 of them...
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>>1796857
Rejecting isms is just childish rebellion and poisonous to learning.
No matter how much of a special snowflake you think you may be, somebody somewhere has written on your exact opinions and developed them far better than you can. Studying this ism can help you better understand the issues you care about, and lead you down other paths to other isms that you may end up with.
If you truly, somehow manage to have a unique belief system that is non-contradictory, create your own ism and share it with the rest of us.
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>>1796926
It isn't reject ism, just the idea that people get so absorbed in one way of thinking, that is the true poison. You don't need to create and share a new ism, and also don't need to believe that people's opinions are better than your own.
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believe whatever you want just don't be ddogmatic
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The only problem is that people don't always respond to someone's form of ism. Like all of their assumptions about an ism they don't agree with all come to the table. Then arguing, then no intellectual agreement
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>>1796857
Was Ferris a Stirnerposter?
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>>1796872
Maybe YOU would do that, but I wouldn't.
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>>1796857
He's right, -isms are for fags.
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>>1797036
>"it isn't reject ism"
>reject-ism
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I think OP means we shouldnt be stuck with one ism, the isms narrow our intellectual capacity.
How many communists have reed anything about liberialism? Or economics for that matter, they go after memes and end up as communists and reject everything that doesnt fit that narrative.
We shouldnt identity with isms but with arguments that can derive from that way of thinking or against it. Namsayin?
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I am 100% on board with rarely labeling yourself.
I think it's a way to remove individual-ISM.
Isn't that the only ism we need. Seems like they've been hearding people by mentalities for a while now.
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>>1796880
I think i'll pick up pyrrhonism, titanism and pejorism
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