https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/ … "Sense of foreshortened future" is a commonly attested symptom of PTSD. Lots of useful concepts in this article.
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In Husserl's view, there is an underlying, invisible substrate of trust, more a disposition than a cognitive belief, that allows us to think and act at all without being paralyzed by fearful doubt.
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"For the most part, such expectations do not take the form of explicit judgments. They are symptomatic of a habitual, practical confidence, a feeling of being more generally “at home” in the world."
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"It is against this backdrop that we have more localized experiences of problematic uncertainty and doubt, and make explicit judgments to the effect that event p will, will not, or might not arise."
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"Hence a non-localized sense of confidence or certainty is not itself an attitude toward anything specific but something that is already in place when such attitudes are adopted."
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This generalized sense of confidence or trust is, the authors claim, what is destroyed in trauma, along with the implicit belief that one has a future, that it makes any sense to plan for the future.
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It seems to me that the popularity of apocalypse narratives -- the widespread *felt sense* that there's no point in planning for anything ten years away (or even five years away!) because the world will have ended by then -- is due to this.
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Hot take: anyone pressuring you to lose this "basal security" or "sense of trust", or anyone saying it is morally obligatory to lack it, is a bad person who is literally traumatizing you.
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