Trauma and ideology both have in common that they make you less flexible / creative / responsive by blocking your ability to notice and care about context. Wonder about shared mechanism. Plausibly the latter is at least sometimes being powered by the former.
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Yes I think if you dig deep enough into highly ideological people they tend to draw their beliefs from some sort of intense pain in their past.
Yeah, you can see this really clearly with, say, SJWs or incels. I wonder how much it also applies to, say, communists or neoreactionaries.
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I think it applies to them as well. My theory is that untraumatized people basically develop into normies im every way. Political organizations esp through the internet are often as much about talk therapy for screwed up, bitter people as about politics.
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Peek under the cover of anything that appears to be about logic, reason, and you'll find human emotional pain. It's the primary driver of anything we do beyond primal urges of food, sleep, sex.
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