ok so the internet suggests he at least has a word count now so at least it's progressed to editing-hell instead of entirely missing-in-action.
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reading dozens of books that pervasively flatter you in ways you don't notice (because everything you read does it) can, if you get real used to it, cause you to become shocked and angered by exposure to books that unaccountably fail to flatter you
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I think more of a thing where a reading diet consisting solely of D&D tie-ins constrains intellectual development and leaves one open to regarding challenges to that universe as attacks on one's own identity. Which is the core of goobergrape.
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well that's a pretty sad outcome. hard to reason about counterfactuals, but if you're talking about a person with that degree of incuriosity and ego fragility, it's not the pulp fantasy novels that's fucking up their emotional and intellectual development.
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enh, yes and no. there's a feedback loop between the pathologies we bring to our indulgences and the ways our indulgences reinforce our pathologies and i don't think it's as simple as saying one is blameful and one is blameless
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looks like we're doing a Lacanian reading after all
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isn't that just a meta-Freudian 'everything is 8 symbolic layers deep' thing or do you mean something else by the term
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ok the first time I was talking about doing psychodynamic readings of fictional characters. this time I was making a joke that we're now psychologizing the outgroup in a twitter thread.
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i just want to put in here re psychologizing the outgroup that i'm extremely like all the motherfuckers i have the most hate for (movement incels, *gators), have veered insanely close to winding up like them and any commentary i make is extremely there-but-for-the-grace-of-Eris
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i psychologize them from the perspective of having jumped off the cliff and caught a branch and extrapolating to what it might have been like to hit bottom
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