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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I believe I create the context. My cult growing up used to say “in the world but not of the world”. I’m in those lefty circles but I provide a quiet, consistent dissenting voice. Then when people are ready to de-radicalise they have someone they can talk to.
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I do wonder if I should be doing more to mediate between the two sides of the culture war though.
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