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half of this website believes that all of your problems can be solved by going to therapy

another half thinks that the entire psychological profession is fake and after some vaguely construed revolution mental health will be solved

what's funny about this is that nothing about it new

I wish this wasn't paywalled because the books Lasch reviewed (in 1976!) sound very familiar. The same kind of dumb debates on this subject that occur constantly here are inherited from boomers

the point Lasch makes towards the end is that all of these books are grasping towards something that neither therapy or politics fully covers, even if both are obviously relevant.

but first, he does a tour through the books. he encounters people who believe all character traits are a product of "propaganda" and "conditioning" that can be fixed with therapy or therapy-like processes, and people who think therapy is a distraction from politics

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@Aelkus

My most Luddite opinion is that you must pick one

a) the ability to connect with arbitrary numbers of people simultaneously around the world

b) rich, multi-modal, interaction that mutually exposes vulnerability among participants

if you want a) and b) simultaneously you get the basis for a science fiction horror scenario and that's a Bad Thing unless you're a Gendo Ikari type

"individuals might experience episodic segments of the lives of other willing participants (locally or remote) to, hopefully, encourage and inspire improved understanding and tolerance among all members of the human family" uh nope sorry

this goes to my periodic complaint about global villages vs. global cities. cities are anonymous places full of wary people that, after certain conditions are met, can become lifelong friends....

I mean, A enabled me to have B with a bunch of people I couldn't have met in the beforetimes, but this was a time on the internet when moving up the ladder of intimacy included "telling each other your legal names"
— K. Chen (@tznkai) January 6, 2021

villages are places ruled by grandmas who, whatever the ethnicity or nationality, have intelligence networks that rival the KGB

idgames://11790
@Aelkus

as much as the moderation controversy stinks, its worth noting that the meta-controversy overshadows the actual controversy because there is no actual controversy. it's remarkably weak

It doesn't get more self-discrediting for the GOP than the implicit suggestion that the most promising line of attack against Joe Biden, with a couple weeks left before Election Day, is to shine a spotlight on his son Hunter. pic.twitter.com/jZydlLxs7G
— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) October 16, 2020

this stuff is primarily of interest to me because of the legitimacy of moderation on a site that that is de facto critical infrastructure

we live in a clown world where a site like this is, due to the President and so many influential people posting on it, now critical infrastructure pic.twitter.com/tzORuW0rLI
— idgames://11790 (@Aelkus) October 17, 2020

but voters barely know it is going on at all, and the object-level thing the meta-level fight is occurring over is laughably weak. They're reduced to trying to make a show out of Biden's son. Ah yes, because Presidential candidates always have impeccably behaved relatives! (not)

They've thrown the Burisma thing at Biden over and over again for the better part of a year and it hasn't panned out. They're now down to this.

pretty impressive for Guiliani to step on his own dick this bad with this attempt at ratfucking pic.twitter.com/4XkPcNIjq7
— debdrens (@debdrens) October 16, 2020

if Twitter hadn't artificially extended the life of this story, it might have been on the cusp of burning out already. Because it's hilariously stupid

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