@Plinz That stuff you just retweeted, especially the untruth of fragility, that's got me super triggered, bro.
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Replying to @Plinz
You know, when I experience some bad things in my life, it seems to fuck me up more and more. So whenever some "thinker" exclaims that kids these days, they just need some adversity, it doesn't ring true to me.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
I don't think that people need adversity. They need to the ability to successfully prevail within an adversarial universe. The purpose of mind is to regulate, i.e. deal with adversity. Demanding that adversity goes away won't work.
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Replying to @Plinz
There's 3 types of people when it comes to adversity. 1: People that have the tools to deal with it. 2: People that have the endurance the suffer it and 3: People that have neither. I started as type 2, and slowly got worn down to type 3.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
Do you know how infuriating and crushing it is when you tell someone(doctor, parent) that you feel bad, and they come back with some variant of "oh well you just need to suffer more". I imagine quite a few people go and kill themselves after one of those conversations.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
The inability to react to (actual or imagined*) adversity in other ways than complaining, suffering and potentially suicide is EXACTLY what the text describes, no? I wonder what is going on there. (*doctors usually don't actually say that you should suffer more)
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FWIW, I don't think that the problem is that your generation is coddled, but that it is indoctrinated with self-hatred.
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