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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Replying to @Plinz
I gave the tweet another read. It's not quite as bad as on first impression. It uses charged language. Coddling. Great Untruths(of which the first one is wrong). References to universities and liberal democracies. The tweet violates it's own third rule.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
If the tweet just said "check out these tools that can help people overcome adversity", I imagine I'd have reacted much differently.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
Again, I find the normative stance offensive. The text offers an analysis (which the reader is free to disagree with). It is not telling you what to do or think or check out. You are an autonomous being.
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Replying to @Plinz
The part with the proverbs "prepare the child for the road", that aligns with my beliefs. The part where they state the Untruth of Fragility, that makes me mad, because I think it's wrong. If you put the maddening stuff at the start of your statement, the rest won't be read.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw @Plinz
I'm a fragile person. That book(and tweet) is about helping me, right? But the authors don't understand what will make a fragile person get mad and stop reading? So how come they give analysis on fragility if they don't understand this?
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Don’t you see that this not a book for you, but about you? It is not meant to help you, but to explain to others why you are so helpless.
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Replying to @Plinz
Well, now I can :p I still don't feel comfortable about some dudes doing analysis about me behind me back, in a way that would make me mad if I read it. But whatever, gonna have to let this one go. How do you take charge of your own brain?
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
It is not behind your back, and it is not the fault of others if you are not an adult. It is probably something in the drinking water, plus indoctrination by the currently fashionable cults.
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