Right in the intro to book is about where I got Laingpilled as a young man.
“We are potentially men.”
“A shriveled, desiccated fragment of what a person can be.”
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I grew up in a small midwest community where the overwhelming vibe was an acceptance of just kind of letting go. You get married at 19, have a kid, and just coast for the rest of your life, there’s not much more for you.
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This book was one of the first powerful statements I saw that pushed along my feeling that “good enough” wasn’t good enough. That striving is something to be embraced, not mocked.
It’s a little thing, but to lil teen me, it was something I desperately needed.
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1967, he published this. And not a week goes by I don’t see someone in this part of twitter re-discovering the same exact thing for themselves.
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Re-reading this, I wonder how much this ties in with IFS.
How much of us needing to co-ordinate our different “Parts” is just a healthy normal part of being human,
And how many of our Parts are actually more like “shards”? Things that ought to be unified, but got ripped up?
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An excellent way of phrasing our child-brainwashing system.
We need them all to be imbeciles with the highest IQs we can feasibly give them.
Yes, we’ve taken a wrecking ball to the world, and we’ve all talked a lot about the ways that this has fragmented, panicked, broken us,
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But I see less discussion these days of the above point:
The arrow doesn’t go straight from “Broken world” to “our broken minds/souls/relations”
Before we could break the world, we had to first break ourselves so we wouldn’t mind breaking the world.
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I’ve never gone through Vervaeke’s stuff, but does he touch on this at all? My vibe is that he talks about how modernity has fragmented our minds.
But does he touch on the ways that it was necessary to break our minds BEFORE going all-in on modernity? And the downstream of that?
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Again, published 1967. Now so commonplace it barely warrants comment.
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Deeply ambivalent here, but let’s take a moment to appreciate the accuracy and poetry of “the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother”
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