it's not anyone's "fault" for falling into such despair, but I think we could all be part of creating a culture that's protective against it — a better social safety net is part of the answer, but without a visceral hope/optimism accompanying it, it's not sufficient
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Replying to @webdevMason @bronzebarbarian
my current thinking is that a balanced structure of practical activity and consciously maintained delusion is how this is addressed; the problem is it would appear to be impossible to propagate this idea while propagating good judgment about what delusions to have along with it
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what do you mean by “consciously maintained delusion”? what’s the delusion here?
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"i am going to be rich and famous someday" "i am better than other people because i was born special" "i could have succeeded, but others sabotaged me" "the system is persecuting me to keep me from telling people the truth" "i am important because God loves me"
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@webdevMason but I don’t think people need those delusions to succeed. I think all they need is “I *can* be rich/famous/successful/etc. if I try my best”... they don’t need certainty re: the future.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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In fact, certainty (in the form of “I am going to fail”) is part of the problem!
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"success" isn't the question
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Sorry, misunderstood you. What is the question, then?
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how to address thishttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1142084737558880256 …
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Chaos @chaosprime"man is a social animal" sounds all fluffy bunnies but what it means is that there are deep structures in your brain that try to kill you if your perception of your social status is too low. in Dunbar-number-sized social groups most people could clear this bar. most now can'tShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
I see. Yeah, I think I still disagree re: the nature of the social status thing. It also doesn’t fit with my experience of people who claim that they would love nothing more than to be left alone with their books or their model trains or whatever... how do they fit into this?
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the book ones have mostly learned to substitute the experiences of book protags for their own; you'll find they're always into genres full of born-special protags model train ones have to some extent successfully defined their self-validation criteria in terms of their trains
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