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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Happy to read anything you'd recommend, though I protest that I actually had a rather trauma-free childhood!
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Deleted the link I originally replied with here, looks like it maybe wasn't meant to be public. For a different rec try
@xuenay's take on internal family systems:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gfqG3Xcopscta3st/building-up-to-an-internal-family-systems-model … - 1 more reply
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This goes much deeper than you think, Qiaochu. This is what Buddhists refer to as the karmic cycle. You’ve caught on to the cause and effect of suffering not only in specific ideological communities, but throughout the entire human world.
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I unfollow anyone who RTs quillette into my thread. Have a good one!
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