There's some kind of awful toxoplasmosis life cycle thing going on with trauma and ideology. Trauma begets ideologies to make sense of it, and those ideologies form communities in which everyone is actually actively reinforcing each other's trauma, I think in several ways. Oof.
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For context, the mention of toxoplasmosis is a reference to
@slatestarcodex's Toxoplasmosis of Rage, which continues to be extremely relevant and worth building on:https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ …Show this thread -
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@Meta_Aesthetic linked me to this piece by@Ideopunk which is a perfect description of the symptoms although could be strongly augmented by a clearer model of trauma:https://quillette.com/2018/12/11/sad-radicals/ …Show this thread
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It is, but at least the insight reveals that a) ideologues are damaged not evil and b) the remedy is to heal trauma rather than wasting time fighting ideology
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with you 100%!
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