Philosopher Jersey Flight
@jersey_flight
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Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research, - views expressed here my own.
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I'm a thinker, not a fame seeker. I'm a progressive, or what is more, a radical humanist. I don't pay attention to titles, I pay attention to intellectual substance. And though I love theory, I recognize its abstract limits. Knowledge, as privilege, means social responsibility.
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@MsKellyMHayes
These kind of people are actually hiding pathology behind their humor. This is a form of passive-aggressiveness. They don't respect people enough to treat them with respect, they think they are above and beyond everyone else. These people presuppose their own superiority.
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@mehdirhasan
Just like in Germany, eventually we will have to jump this ship if we want to escape the horrors that lie ahead. The weakness of the Left is the thing that upsets me the most. Fascists are gonna fascist, but the weakness of the Left is inexcusable.
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This is where we find the real anti-democratic line in the world: geopolitical subterfuge. In Nazi Germany it was direct propaganda, in our time it’s covert misinformation, geopolitical sabotage, the sowing of discord, chaos, confusion.
Never forget that Wikileaks released the hacked Clinton emails on 10/7/16, 30 mins after publication of the Access Hollywood tape. From
@TimothyDSnyder
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@mauldin_laura
“Once you fail, we’ll blame you for it, even though you were born into a system that sabotaged you. We know this, but you don’t, and it gives us the advantage of imposing shame and guilt on you, we not only get to call you a failure, but make you think you are one!”
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@bonkey_bong
@Sharon_Kuruvila
Here's the worst part. When kids like this call the police the police usually show up and validate the abuser, I've seen it happen many times. We are right to despise authoritarians, we are right to shame these kind of people. Kids deserve better.
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@PleaseSavemich
I’ve started to say some outlandish stuff: why you wearing mask: “because Covid is a progressive Chinese bio weapon engineered to destroy America and I don’t want to catch it.” 😂
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No one has a problem with Christians wanting to live their life in self-sacrificial love for others. But this isn’t what Christians want to do, they want to judge, condemn, impose dogma, and persecute those who don’t share their belief. This is justificatory grounds for Atheism.
I’ve never met a Christian-turned-atheist who left the faith because they didn’t like Jesus, but I’ve met hundreds who left because the Christians around them acted nothing like Jesus.
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No one who loves democracy should like corrupt judges. John Roberts is a corrupt chief justice. I’m just gonna leave this right here.
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@MCHammer
I raise you one far superior.
When one reads Kant they learn how to be pedantic and idiosyncratic, irrelevantly abstract. When one reads Hegel they learn how to discern and interact with a world in motion.
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@Samantharhill
Sure. But it’s still lesser! And, unfortunately, the power dynamic of systems often doesn’t provide us with the option for something better than the “lesser evil.” Right, we want no evil! This is why we must change power dynamics.
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@LaSeletzky
@n_hold
We have now entered into what I call The Age of Death. The underlying presupposition of life's value has been negated, efficiency and profit, at any cost, are the new dominating presuppositions. This new age is only just beginning.
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@Esqueer_
I mean, if we want to get Biblical:
“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” Rev 13:3
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@outbreakupdates
What a premise: “we’re just a few mutations away from complete disaster.” Hard truth that few want to face.
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@DaniBeckman
Thanks for sharing. People want Covid to be over, so when they see posts like this they just want to get away from it. But that’s not how reality works.
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@ninaturner
@wrens_dens
No, Wren is correct Nina. The far Left has gone too far. They’ve become fanatics and extremists, and hypocrites. They never call out the Republicans or Israel - this is deeply suspicious and makes one wonder if geopolitical narratives are at the root, driving outrage.
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@abenanav
The goal of the future should be nothing less than emancipation from labour! The real reason for this should be to unleash man's creative powers.
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Let’s be clear, we will continue to see health carnage and viral proliferation throughout the world, until human intelligence realizes that it can prevent this carnage, simply by wearing masks and purifying air. The end.
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I believe America is going to collapse into fascism, but the question is why? The answer is not because of the rise of the Right, but because of the arrogance and apathy of the Left. If historians ever get the chance to look back they will see that the intellectual class... 1/2
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@kadamssl
@TVDSB
Unsustainable. The future will have a lot of health conscious people whose poor health forced them to be health conscious, only now they will have permanent damage. What did you think would be the long term result of not wearing a mask? “I never thought about it.” Precisely!
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Excellent reporting by Joy Reid on Project 2025. This is a must watch video! These are real fascists within the gates trying to overthrow and subvert American democracy.
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@YouAreLobbyLud
I find it unbelievable that I’m not able to discuss this with nearly every person I know because they don’t want to hear it, they resent it. And yet, it’s coming for all of us. Very difficult psychological space to be in.
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I don’t want to do anything about Covid. I don’t want to talk about it, think about it, stay up to date with it. I want it to go away and life to go back to normal, but this is not the world we live in anymore. And if we, the informed, don’t speak out, who will?
I understand what we need to do about Covid. First of all, there is a “we,” that is, those of us who keep up on Covid data and know how serious Covid is. We have to come together and fight for life. We need to form chapters in every state. We need doctors, virologists…
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A Covid Parable:
Once upon a time on a distant and insignificant planet there lived a group of stupid monkeys. These monkeys had to live their lives grappling from tree to tree because the ground was an ocean of molten rock. One day the trees became infected with a strange…
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This is not a “second American revolution,” it’s a Christian Nationalist, Monarchist Revolution to empower a king. Those of us who resist this, We are the Americans; We are the ones defending the democratic principles enshrined in the constitution. These are seditionists.
The president of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025:
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
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@leahmcelrath
It showed me that the mature Left is struggling with its position a bit. The problem with the Gaza situation is that it’s only one aspect of a larger picture, and we are idiots if we saw off the democratic branch on which we sit. Trump’s danger is far greater than Gaza.
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@jdcmedlock
I don’t know who this James Medlock fella is, but he’s always posting good sh*t, intelligent, grounded, civil and informed. Dude just always seems to have a good take on things.
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Doomerism and Nihilism are both false for the simple reason that even if we can’t control grand narratives, the little narratives still matter, things still matter! Beware of those who use grand narratives to poison the little narratives of life.
Doomerism is real. It likely has its greatest effect on the youngest voters. It is currently being exploited all around us to enable the worst forces in America. If nothing matters, then Trump doesn't matter.
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@MeetJess
It seems to me the thing science is going to eventually say is, “Most people can only contract Covid so many times before it’s fatal, causes long Covid (brain damage), or takes years off one’s life by causing another chronic condition.”
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I'm not against religion but I am against fundamentalism (it's not good for the world). However, the most damaged and miserable people I have ever met in my life have all been religious, specifically, fundamentalist Christians.
There’s a widespread view out there that being religious facilitates happiness and well-being, and that nonreligious people are less happy than religious people.
It’s even been the scholarly consensus up to now—but new research has overturned it:
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@NjbBari3
@TRyanGregory
In my estimation critical intelligence is the rarest disposition among humans. Like Einstein said (paraphrase), human stupidity is infinite.
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@xriskology
@nathanoseroff
@Salon
This is spot on. I'm a strong atheist and have long rejected and spoken out about the fascist leanings you describe here. I think the main reason atheists become Right-thinking is because they are easily duped by ideological forms of reason.
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For example, don’t post: “OMG, the democrats are so weak, they’re going to lose.”
Post narrative strength:
“OMG, Trump is a convicted felon and traitor, he’s going to take the entire Republic party down with him.”
“Hell no, I’m not voting for a 34 time convicted felon!”
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@LauraMiers
@bledwine
Whether we like the term or not, this is rooted in class war. These rules are ultimately coming down from, policies being shaped, influenced, manipulated by people who can 1) stay home and 2) stand to profit from these policies.
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At this point our plight is rather straightforward, we have to figure out how to live in a culture of mass denial. (This denial has always been there in our species, but before it had the luxury of being less consequential, this is no longer the case).
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@DrEricDing
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What incredible feat of courage, intelligence, humanity did I just see? Who is this remarkable person! Like a burst of light shot out into a dark universe.
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One of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my life is the audacity of human denial.
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What an amazing video. Science is awesome (so are doctors!). I could listen to this fella talk all day, though he’s explaining a serious medical condition, his voice is calm and soothing.
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@PaulMinotMD
You don’t think mental health has anything to do with brain function? What school did you go to? I want to know so I make sure my kids never go there. Would you recommend this same advice for people with dementia?
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@LauraMiers
I anticipate we’re going to see Covid denial madness, and it will be strong; possibly, I think, for up to three years. This is how long I think it will take for people to realize how serious it is. It will take several winter cycles and lots of disability to drive the point home.
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@Helenreflects
Sanity lives with this post! I have been wearing a mask since Covid started, I never let up on my precautions. I haven’t caught it yet. But seeing the world become more and more apathetic to this deadly virus feels like living in a novel.
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the death toll rose so high, and the amount of monkeys who became crippled and could no longer use their hands, was so great that even the dumbest monkeys started to wear the gloves. (Slow learners were they!) But by the time this happened many many monkeys had died.
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@99blackbaloons
Humans are strange. We diagnose the problem and then just sit back and let it happen, watching the train go off the cliff. Resistance is one of the most crucial things we can learn, and we haven’t learned it yet.
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@BenjaminNorton
Where is the huge Christian uprising to stand behind this guy and support him for doing what Jesus told him to do?
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Good reporting here. No America should be okay with taxpayer-funded religious schools. America, amazingly, has a secular constitution.
It's over! Oklahoma officials have FINALLY ripped up the contract with what would have been the nation’s first religious, taxpayer-funded school.
The case will be appealed to SCOTUS, but for now, it's a huge victory for church/state separation.
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@DrAnnieHickox
Allow me, a dialectician, to say, DBT is not dialectical. It's really just an expanded form of CBT. Clinicians love how easy it makes it to do their job: just stick to the worksheets, and like all CBT therapy, if the method is ineffective, one can always just blame the client.
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retreated from culture; that they cowered in the face of opposition; that they failed to defend their ideas; that they took leisure in the Ivory Tower while barbarians destroyed civilization with propaganda. All in all they were missing from culture in every way that mattered. 2/
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@msainat1
@Myntaford
This doesn't even have to happen all the way across the board, just enough essential and vital workers and this nonsense system will be brought to its knees. People want living wages, healthcare, affordable housing. The workers can have it all if they learn to stick together. 💪
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IN DEFENSE OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL:
Ignorant-propaganda-pundits, and their stooges, keep on asserting that the thinkers that comprised the Frankfurt School were "Postmodern Relativists." THIS IS A FALSE TALKING POINT, as this short thread will unequivocally prove. 1/8
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Intellectuals who assert that philosophy has no bearing on the world are, in the first place, simply admitting their ignorance. In the second place, they are condemning themselves, confessing that their act of philosophy is nothing more than an abstract game.1/
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Sadly, both of these things are true. Many people's lives do not matter in America. Systemic tyranny. 😭
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@LolaGerms
I recently had a friend completely minimize the risk of Covid. He said, “you do you and I’ll do me.” I was so taken back by it that I didn’t know how to respond. (Notice the absolute selfishness: what if his “doing him” infects an immune compromised mother?) Disappointing.
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@babadookspinoza
But theorists retreat into more theory. The real work of freedom is dangerous and hard and so few of us are conditioned for it. We like our freedom in words from a distance.
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This is Budweiser subconsciously explaining what's wrong with the world. Credulity as the ultimate virtue, skepticism as the ultimate evil; a grand recipe for a species' extinction.
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@ScottHech
@AP
What's most frightening is that this kind of propaganda works. Science and reason are losing this war! Both science and reason advocate informed, compassionate intervention, but this propaganda advocates barbarism, state violence, it's inherently anti-intellectual.
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Friends! This is exactly what Marcuse was discoursing about in his excellent essay, "Repressive Tolerance." James didn't understand it! This is a fact. Marcuse knew that censorship was inevitable because the principle of free speech could be used to destroy freedom itself. 1/8
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@leahmcelrath
What's most disturbing to me is that Putin knew in advance that his actions could lead to a world war. Is this something he wants or something he's willing to risk?
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@MCHammer
And you being a musical artist, I think you might appreciate this Hegel quote:
The method of logic is the absolute rhythm of all that is alive[.] (Lectures on Logic p.75)
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This is what WE MUST DO if we want public health:
1) Public Health is dead.
Public health is now a political apparatus of the state created to control narratives.
2) We are going to have to grassroots-advocate, organize and show up, for the health we want and need.
#Life
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I understand what we need to do about Covid. First of all, there is a “we,” that is, those of us who keep up on Covid data and know how serious Covid is. We have to come together and fight for life. We need to form chapters in every state. We need doctors, virologists…
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This is excellent, just excellent. No doubt human belief is often motivated by the feelings those beliefs engender, the subject doesn't care about accuracy or intellectual standards, but only the feelings he gets from the belief. Intellectuals must have better standards!
An addiction model may actually explain tribalism, confirmation bias, and even conspiracy theories/Qanon. Let’s unpack….
Several years ago I started observing the parallels between addiction and political tribalism as marriages/friendships/families imploded over politics….1/
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@NancyRPearcey
You try to subtly throw secularism into your sermon, meanwhile Christianity is all about women submitting to the power of men; about restricting women’s power and allowing it to (demanding that it) be defined by men. You say, “share power?” Not in your religion. 😂
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@LauraMiers
Know you’re not alone in comprehending this collective madness. The apathy to Covid is so out of proportion to the reality of Covid, all I can think is that it may very well be an outcome of the virus itself.
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@NohaAboelataMD
Politics and profits over people. Our next step as, “we the people,” is to learn how to stand up and *intelligently* resist this.
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@DALupton
The word “crazy” is doing all the lifting here. People need to look at EVIDENCE not rhetoric. A view should be credited or “discredited” through EVIDENCE.
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@magi_jay
And, Republicans are literally scared of us; that’s why they, voter suppression; Trump backs away from Project 2025; Republicans don’t own their positions on abortion, health care, domestic spending etc. Their views are in the minority, not what *Americans* want.
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We are having a hard time coping because people, on a mass scale, are failing to appropriately respond to legitimate and authoritative negative evidence. Instead, these *deniers* are attacking those who present the evidence and appropriately respond to it.
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@kadamssl
@TVDSB
What you’re talking about is a reality that’s actually worse than Covid itself, you’re talking about a collapsed social condition, wherein humans have resigned themselves to live by denial, impulse, delusion. This is seriously discouraging, so of course we don’t want to face it.
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Great example of rational maturity by the caring Dr Annie Hickox. Even when slandered and maligned she just advises to take the higher ground of direct communication, calmly pushing back against distortion and abuse. The adult is teaching the child how to communicate.
@ReadReadj
@rcpsych
@ParianteLab
The point is, professor, that you have described me as a liar, and have thus communicated in such a way as to injure my reputation and that is legally redressable, and I see you have just done it again.
You might wish to show some courage and courtesy, as I have done, of replying
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@christapeterso
Bogus and dialectically weak! I have found this to be a common experience with professors when they are challenged. They love to censor what they cannot refute. Truth always rubs deniers the wrong way.
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Cuba is telling its citizens the truth about Covid, it seems they have a government that still respects human life over ideology and profit.
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This is an accurate statement, “there has never been this much disinformation in the world.” This is our new landscape; it’s a battle for narratives against the truth. Controlling the narrative means controlling people; “control the narrative by any means necessary.”
There has never been this much disinformation in the world. We, as a people, have never been so psychologically vulnerable. The way to fight this is to strengthen our connections, spread the truth, be vulnerable, be joyful, be skeptical, &, overall, just human. Plz RT the truth.
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@jonathanstea
It’s what happens when a person thinks the emotive, rhetorical techniques that work on them, would also work on everyone else. These are confessions regarding the limits of the emancipation of their own psychology.
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@NYinLA2121
@TheRickWilson
This just can't be the end game for an advanced society. I don't see this as an enlightened or mature way to deal with psychological extremism. I do not embrace this man's violence, but I also don't embrace a system thats highest intelligent solution is punishment.
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@DaniBeckman
Want to encourage people to vote for this. It’s very very easy. The link just takes you to a page with a blue button that says, “Vote for this photo.” You just click it, and you’re done. 😀👍
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@asatarbair
It would be more accurate for this fella to say, "issues where Marxists reject identity formations and instead offer up dialectical analysis." Marxist dialectics don't "not take into account," but they expose and shatter one-sided formations on all these issues.
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@ZachWLambert
Dude, I am atheist. You seem like awesome Christian to me. I would go to your Church.
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@kananaskinyeti
1) people don’t believe this because they haven’t yet experienced it, they lack the abstract capacity to comprehend it. 2) they think that this is fanaticism, and that those who speak this way are extremists. 3) they don’t care if their beliefs are groundless, they want comfort.
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@economicthought
I'm gonna speak plain, we have enough of these kind of books. More books like this isn't what we need. We need working models that allow us to survive and resist the power structures of capital.
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Look at the class and maturity of this fella. I hastily criticized one of his threads this morning, interpreting it out of the broader context of his work and his reply was not to label me as "bad" or "stupid" but to strive for a dialectical fairness and respect. Exemplary.
@jersey_flight
In fairness, I'm sure you've encountered anti-psychiatry twitter and some pretty rabidly extreme views. But that is not me.
You'd know that if you've been following my threads here, but I realize that may not have been on your mind when you reacted to this particular thread.
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Vulnerability may very well be the greatest psychological ability that humans have or can achieve.
Teach your children to be vulnerable! Openly, publicly vulnerable. This will make them stronger people, happier people, even smarter people.
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The reason I stand against Anti-Psychiatry is because it's a Human Rights issue, psychiatry at its best, has to do with minimizing human suffering.We are talking about standing up for some of the most vulnerable people on the planet,people who often cannot advocate for themselves
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This is the BEST thread I’ve seen documenting Covid and its impact on the brain. 👇👇
COVID + THE BRAIN 🧠
There’s been a flurry of new studies published in recent weeks about Covid’s detrimental impact on the brain.
This is the aspect of Covid which concerns me most, but which many people seem to be blissfully unaware of.
So let’s dig into what we know… 🧵
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@Inadarkwood
I love the presuppositions of humanity here so much, they are my own, but I think there's a cynical reality that needs to be accepted: the deck is severely stacked against disabled people and will be until human value structures have altered. This is not civil,fair or intelligent
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If the Anti-Psychiatry position was to apply its skepticism to pharmacology in general, what would be left? I mean, what's the end game here? Very hard to see how this, anti-biological, anti-science position, comprises a logic for the future? It's a regressive narrative.
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@EnemyInAState
It really is just a matter of time before people realize how serious it is. We will see masking again, but not until many more people have died and gotten sick. Slow learners have to touch the burner to know it’s hot.
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powerlessness, a psychology that assumes all negativity is the outcome of personal Agency. In this view one’s theory becomes a false idealism. Sometimes the best that psychology can do is mourn with (not blame!) the victim of irrational and inhumane circumstances.
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@jonathanstea
I have started reaching out to the mental health community on social media platforms to warn them that the cult of Anti-psychiatry 1) completely denies their involuntary suffering and 2) is seeking to defund all their supports and 3) blames them for their condition.
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@JonathanShedler
Yes, I agree that it has Jonathan, but psychology has a limit that moves it in a different direction, away from the individual & towards the humane advocacy of better social systems. But we hardly ever see psychology (gists) doing this. Agency can become a dogma, is, in our time.
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analyzed the situation, and through advanced techniques, were able to manufacture gloves. These gloves protected the monkey’s hands and often prevented them from falling out of the trees. But these were stupid monkeys, so some of them protested and said they would not…
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wear these gloves because it “violated their freedom.” Many such stupid monkeys fell from the trees and died. Some of them died simply because they didn’t like the way the gloves made their hands look. (Like we said, these were very stupid monkeys). However, eventually…
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Once we come together we strategize going to school board meetings & city council meetings, masked and armed with scientific evidence. We respectfully, but with passion, advocate for mask mandates & clean air in the name of health and life. Covid deniers must not make the rules.
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