Article by @DCoffeen - he explores personal identity via chaos. Detaching identity from family seems scary but is very liberating.
Cc: @johndavidebert @jedwardcarp @MimeticValue
Would love to hear your opinions on this. http://hilariousbookbinder.blogspot.com/2018/08/explaining-ourselves-beyond-family.html …
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@martyrmade is the real expert here. I read the article, and I mostly disagree. People don't fear whatever rationalizations he came up with. It's none of these issues. It's that the experience of fear arises and we rationalize all these reasons to interpret it.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @MimeticValue @bensima and
Blaming capitalist society doesn't solve the problem. The problem is that good times create weak men, who have a defeatist attitude towards the possibility of meaningful work. We are thrown into the world, and there's nobody to blame for what we make of it.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @bensima and
I didn't imagine blame as figuring in. Or capitalism per se -- only that one's mental well being is entwined with various forces other than family.
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Sure, there are countless forces that one might be exposed to. But they aren't all equal, in fact, some are magnitudes more significant, and this could be different between different people. But we don't have sufficient data to draw meaningful conclusions.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @bensima and
Absolutely. My argument, which is actually Guattari's argument which formed the basis of his clinical practice, is that when considering mental health, we need to consider the entanglement of forces rather than focus on the family.
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Replying to @DCoffeen @MimeticValue and
Interesting how you begin from human hyper-connectedness and arrive at an atomized individualism so complete that a father cannot take any credit (or responsibility) for the outcomes of his son.
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Well, that we my self-effacement shtick, not the core of my argument per se. It seems rather obvious that parents play a role; I offered a jab at the parenting culture I've had to negotiate for 15 years. Humor is hard earned in this here social media!
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I wasn't criticizing, you made a coherent case: Given that humans are the hyper-connected result of vast converging forces, any individual influence is overwhelmed.
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