Ideally rights shouldn't be a zero sum game. When one becomes freer, so do the rest of us. But rights can be defined, legislated, litigated so that they become a zero sum game. This falls under the heading of ways that leaders can depict their enemies as beyond the pale.
Why do I bring this up? Oh, no reason. No reason at all.
Unrelatedly I wonder who else is in on the bet Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer seem to have between them as to who can dumbass their way into the Oval Office the fastest.
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i've seen jordan peterson more than once make the point that the widely accepted practice of cognitive behavioral therapy is all about getting the patient to understand how/why they're getting triggered, & to use that insight in assisting them to develop coping mechanisms to deal with it. iow, it's all about helping your pateint to confront their fears, & not attempting to legislate the means by which to eradicate the source of them...
'Today’s Left-liberal culture teaches young people that their problems are not their own fault, but rather the product of various systems beyond their control. These systems may be sociological — late capitalism, systemic racism, the patriarchy — but increasingly, they are medical. A common example is “trauma”, a psychiatric term that has become a knee-jerk justification for everything from street crime to silencing opposing views on campus. It’s a word so overused that even clinicians fear it has lost its meaning. Most people, however, are happy to have their personal failings blamed on medical issues, because it absolves them of responsibility. It’s not your fault you violently lashed out, you have trauma. It’s not your fault you lack energy, you have long Covid. It’s not your fault you hate the way you look, you have gender dysphoria...'
unherd: Is liberal society making us ill?
the author refers to this as 'pathologisation', & is a phenomenon that i'm thinking we've both come to recognize: obviously, when it comes to politics, no one's gonna need you more than those relying on you to protect them from 'harm’:
youtube: safety is a cootie wootie
(We've attempted to post this several times and evry time it looks okay then disappears. This time I've removed the actual links.
It may just be a glitch in blogger - don't try to fix.)
Trauma--or if you prefer, "trauma"--has become a contagious disease and the means by which it is spread are cultural and technological. People of every generation have always complained and shared war stories, but the meaning and context have changed. Where it was once more a matter of "This is what I've triumphed over", that message has almost entirely been supplanted by "These are the awful things besetting me." Anything can be a trauma if you're determined to make it one. I don't know that everyone is like that, or even all young people. But the incentives are pretty strong.
It doesn't work as a link, but the song is up on YouTube still. Being reminded of the Residents is never a bad thing.
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