(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/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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can you bottle that optimism?
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My guess is it's no so much optimism as indifference between life & death (and shades of outcomes in-between), which leads to sang froid re: social issues but makes it hard to get deadline work done. Speaking of which...
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"He who fears death cannot enjoy life"https://open.spotify.com/track/2e5J13vplUnIhT9uVisGJN?si=77D1t7mCRlOrAmPshBUTJA …
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Why should I care about this weird, non-standard definition of genocide? And what's the concrete impact to me of this broad population change?
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IDK it might help fertility rates, but Japan has pretty tough immigration laws. If nothing else, the anime would be lit.
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Ok, thanks for the info. I'm not so into eternalism as applied to nations and peoples, but I get the appeal.
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would be nice for the individual to just not get stuck in ruminative thoughts BUT if it's going to happen, I'm imagining there are environmental and personal developmental factors that favor certain ruminations over others. can it be controlled or altered after formation?
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