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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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I mean, same, though I never got as far as jumping. Just a nice long gaze into the abyss.
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I'd agree it's a proximate, not a root, cause, but *gestures broadly all around* these folk ain't in short supply.
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I really think the bigger problem is just that these people aren't correctly ignored and are now plugged in to the grievance-industrial complex like everyone else in the god damn world. there's always shitty people who won't shut up with their tedious complaints. just ignore.
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I'm inclined to synthesize this and Chaos' take: people who are treated as if they are the most important thing by society will prey on the easy source of food (by which I mean attention).https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/996100724466561024 …
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A book can prime you for this kind of behavior but probably is not sufficient on its own. qv. people who can find a link between video games and violence but mostly in people who are already risk factors for violence e.g. no friends, abusive home, etc. reality sure is polycausal
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it's like it *wants* to break our shiny abstractions
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