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poll: to what extent do you feel like you pretty much just know what you want? feel free to clarify and elaborate in the replies

confidently know
17.3%
kinda know some things
52.6%
pretty lost
28.6%
idk / other / results
1.5%

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Simon Sarris

@simonsarris

Feb 19

the lost, why are they lost?

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Feb 19

i have My Usual Opinion about this

Simon Sarris

@simonsarris

Feb 19

a straussian reading of this meme is that trauma does not exist and is not the cause of xyz

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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@simonsarris

what about the double straussian reading where aliens also exist and i mean it depends. i run into a lot of resistance when i use the term "trauma" on twitter, seems like a lot of people have very strong opinions about what it means that don't necessarily align with how i use it

2:29 AM · Feb 19, 2022Twitter Web App

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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i don't have a clear sense of what's going on here but my vague guess is a lot of online use of "trauma" comes from like tumblr-y places that... don't really believe that trauma can actually be resolved? and that's the opposite of what i try to point to

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Feb 19

in any case rather than attempting to publicly resolve this tangle i've mostly just stopped using the word "trauma," the word isn't important, i've found other ways of pointing to the relevant phenomena

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