(General method for dealing with people who announce they're super-concerned about abstract things that do not directly affect them -- hwhite genocide ed.):https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1011303772184809472 …
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1/A good watchword re: anxiety (and rumination) = "the content is not important." You're not going in circles because you've decided to engage in a course of destructive circular quasi-reasoning, rather, you're more or less stuck in an unproductive loop of thought that can be
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2/usefully understood as a manifestation of the processes of a normally-functioning brain run amok. If rumination has metaphysical significance, it should be robust to getting up and taking a nice walk in the sun!
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sure, but that's kinda therapeutic advice whereas what I'm more interested in is why specific ruminative contents manifest in specific persons. i.e. what are the necessary conditions to produce the "white genocide" anxiety rumination and how to shunt that into something else?
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1/Well, the latter question is therapeutic, and easier, the former has to do with the workings of the brain & how it perceives, stores, and processes info, and is much harder. Re: the former, I'd note that, to take root, an anxiety-reinforcing construct typically must map on
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2/plausibly to "identity" in some way, and then usually to various common factors of anxiety (status threat, fear for physical safety, etc.). As to the actual processes involved, I tend to think Hofstadter's work (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_Analogies …) is directionally informative, &
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3/there are many modern formalisms & levels of analysis that could provide useful insight (e.g., see my earlier tweet-storms re: Friston's free energy and character disordered people), but to my knowledge we're nowhere close to having anything like definite answers.
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the infohazard levels have gotten so high I'm grasping at straws for memetic vaccines
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While the infohazard levels may be higher than ever, I'd say the memetic immune system has never been so robust. (anyhow the best vaccine is compassion and listening, but nobody wants to compassionately listen to that:>)
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