QC

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.

The problem is something like, too much freedom of association allows you to spend it all running away from your problems. At some point people have to hit rock bottom and then they need to take the step of noticing that they need to do something else.