This article is full of strawmen.https://twitter.com/quillettem/status/1016626836606894080 …
Yea. The term could have applied to some aspects of my younger behavior. Had I been called out, I would have consulted my rationalizations -- conditioned by that toxic environment -- and ignored the accusation. Or, called it slander.
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The perspective and distance needed to reject the rationalization-as-ego-grooming took time and painful effort. In retrospect – and, for me, a damn phd on belief systems – it's clear that the constellation of self-reinforcing, associated beliefs formed a perceptual gravity well.
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...the default one.
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