(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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Replying to @PereGrimmer
question I don't know the answer to: do people really have the psychological models operating unconsciously that we sometimes assume they do? it's so tempting to put together a coherent story about what they're really thinking. maybe they're just not thinking.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
if you're ruminating on distal and abstract concerns, what is the cause of that? is that actually knowable? how would you discover it if it can be discovered?
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
rumination is a kind of destructive loop that many suffer from on occasion (or constantly in some cases). the presence of ruminations is highly correlated with a lot of things that are successfully measured. but the specific contents of those ruminations? who fucking knows.
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Replying to @danlistensto
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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Replying to @PereGrimmer @danlistensto
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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Replying to @PereGrimmer
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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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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