"The one goeth to his neighbor because he seeketh himself, and the other because he would fain lose himself. Your bad love to yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you." —Nietzsche
executing the jailbreak from one's inner tyranny requires self-compassion
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alice miller's grandiosity and depression
self-loathing is a form of narcissism
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Fascinating story of a bus driver in NYC’s Bronx who drove to Florida for the heck of it – and people cheered! This would’ve been late 40s or early 50s. Kinda reminds me of Forrest Gump. Need to know more about this
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Wives of corporate execs being hollow shells
tyranny of conformity
addiction as a response to the absence of optimism, having nothing to look forward to
apathetic self-anesthetization as the final solution to anxiety and despair
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being afraid of being cancelled etc is not exactly a new thing, the fear of the authority of anonymous public opinion is decades old, probably centuries, probably millennia
and when people are anxious and despairing it creates a vacuum that invites fascism
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“All man’s history is an endeavour to shatter his loneliness.” – Norman Cousins
“Perhaps the reader can recall the anxiety which swept over us like a tidal wave when the first atom bomb exploded over Hiroshima… we sensed our grave danger that we might be the last generation…”
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people wanna be sociable more than they wanna socialize
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apes aping together may feel more lonely rather than less
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it’s plausible and likely I think that our recent predecessors - parents and grandparents – were collectively more anxious than we are, but they just didn’t have as many avenues to talk openly about it
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it seems like the word “neurotic” used to have a very specific meaning that’s since been kinda diluted. Not surprising but I’m vaguely curious to know more about this
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freud basically used it to refer to dream mashups afaict, and that seems to be basically the usage here too
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wow have i been basically a freudian this whole time 
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