Divinity is what sits at the top of the moral gossip tree. That is what moralising religions provide. A top authority. Much of our social dysfunction comes from Twitter mobs acting as peaks of the moral gossip tree.
> He’s stranded (arguably by choice) at the front lines of a culture war, and embattled by a media engine which revels in mischaracterizing him to reap clickbait money... thinks out loud and challenges his own assumptions... can’t trust that his own advice would be useful, because he can’t appeal to his own authority...
The anti-woke culture war is the Russian Winter of the meme landscape, and the "alt" sphere, Afghanistan. Only a man with excessive ego would dare waltz into multiple fronts. His caricature is also looking more and more clownishly authoritarian (see "who cancels who" memes). https://archive.ph/1uy2fhttps://archive.ph/FavJMhttps://archive.ph/wip/FavJM
I don't think that there's necessarily a hierarchy since therapists can effectively help other therapists and it can form a circle. I view it more like the ways we help each other are positive sum (even if it's negative for one of the parties it at least helps the other party more), not so much that we spew our poison up the tree to one almighty stoic at the top.
I don't think clonazepam is for depression but anxiety.
Divinity is what sits at the top of the moral gossip tree. That is what moralising religions provide. A top authority. Much of our social dysfunction comes from Twitter mobs acting as peaks of the moral gossip tree.
Interesting read
> He’s stranded (arguably by choice) at the front lines of a culture war, and embattled by a media engine which revels in mischaracterizing him to reap clickbait money... thinks out loud and challenges his own assumptions... can’t trust that his own advice would be useful, because he can’t appeal to his own authority...
The anti-woke culture war is the Russian Winter of the meme landscape, and the "alt" sphere, Afghanistan. Only a man with excessive ego would dare waltz into multiple fronts. His caricature is also looking more and more clownishly authoritarian (see "who cancels who" memes). https://archive.ph/1uy2f https://archive.ph/FavJM https://archive.ph/wip/FavJM
The fatal assumption is that just because he challenged the idea, it does not guarantee reasonable ideological change, and his post-Zizek thought process has not changed much. A man who only changes beliefs in a state of fear, as with his desire to prayer, is not reliable in making advice an absolute ala 12 Rules of Life. If it sounds too appealing, it is likely to be either non-universal (lack of contextual clarity) or false, in both the countersignaling sense (platitudes & "just drink tea-ism") and in the grift sense (obvious advice attached to a cult of personality). https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/on-the-futility-of-offering-advice https://blog.asmartbear.com/advice.html https://amirbolous.com/posts/advice/ https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status https://archive.ph/Y92ob
> Nicotine. I started vaping for a bit. I truly think this helped
Whenever nicotine use is considered, try topping up some eggs (or other source of choline) since that helps with maintaining mental focus. The wise either smokes or eats an egg-rich diet to cope with a resource-demanding strong mind. https://www.bravermantest.com/ https://www.uphs.upenn.edu/addiction/berman/relapse/ http://www.staystrongsc.com/blog/2016/7/1/a-heads-up-look-at-brain-health
I don't think that there's necessarily a hierarchy since therapists can effectively help other therapists and it can form a circle. I view it more like the ways we help each other are positive sum (even if it's negative for one of the parties it at least helps the other party more), not so much that we spew our poison up the tree to one almighty stoic at the top.