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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Not only that but ideological communities spawn nemesis communities (e.g. feminism spawning redpill), and not only is this happening in each of them individually but they're also making each other worse too. What a goddamn mess.
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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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Also
@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/ …3 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @QiaochuYuan @Meta_Aesthetic
Happy to read anything you'd recommend, though I protest that I actually had a rather trauma-free childhood!
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Replying to @Ideopunk @Meta_Aesthetic
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 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Ah, and here's a public link for the thing I originally linked to. Just finished a retreat led by @DougTataryn at the @MonasticAcademy where I processed trauma several times more quickly than I ever have. Link to Doug's blog: https://www.bioemotiveframework.com/blog/
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