Author: Mr Nobody
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Post-traumatic stress and it’s role in the Republican reaction to Trump
I think one of the primary mechanisms of the Trump Era and how it’s affected Republicans can be partially understood in terms of traumatic stress. Trump isn’t a gentle leader. He doesn’t make it easy to exist in the fringes. He’s a “get behind me or get out, punish anyone who cross you, lack of…
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Confrontational approaches to bad behavior
In considering why there should be any special tolerance of stressful, negative, confrontational parenting and discipline behaviors, I think the argument for why this case should be treated differently is essentially the same as why we tolerate and even might value the police. The police are terribly unpleasant. They openly wield force and carry weapons,…
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Four possible universes
There are four possible universes. Two of them are absurd, and two are reasonable. I divide reality as well as the human mind into two possibilities to create those four options. The main concept is that there’s an underlying reality to the universe and how it works, its purposes, its meaning, its origin, its ethic.…
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Kindness as an outcome or a foundation
Why it isn’t enough to just talk about acts of kindness without reference to any underlying ideological structure that supports it. For one, because for many people, the foundation is what produces and supports the structure. If the story is merely arbitrary, these people happened to be nice and did this nice thing isn’t that…
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Keeping a careful eye on our words
There’s a reason why we should always avoid using the word “oppressors” except in dire extremes. This kind of language is the language of radical revolution. It’s an ideological weapon with a very specific purpose. And that purpose is to justify the use of force. It’s a weapon of war. That’s why it’s been used…
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Where activism is going
It’s hard to guess what the next front line of post-modernism activism will be. There seems to be a general movement toward the end of discrimination, in virtually any sense. Which is problematic, since our survival and sanity depends on that ability, and efforts to erode it, positively motivated as they may be, won’t actually…
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Seeking balance
The mistake people make with all the little differences a peculiarities we have, the different ways of being, is that they want to label them either good or bad and then operate based on a simplified judgment of their value. They treat it like its an unknown plant that might be medicinal or poisonous and…
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What liberals and conservatives want
Both conservatives and liberals want the same thing, a safe place to live their lives and thrive. The difference is in approach. Conservatives want that process mediated at a local level, particularly by themselves. They want the maximum freedom to be in charge of how they conduct their lives and business so they can ensure…
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Art as a vision
Our art tells the story of what our culture wants to become. The art we consume tells the story of who we will become. Through art we apprehend with the imagination as the reality of beauty what the mind apprehends through cognition as the reality of truth. Knowledge is specific and defined and clear because…
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A daughter’s questions, a father’s answers
The other night I had to stay up a bit later than usual putting my oldest daughter to bed. I read her her story, but while I was reading she was writing something. And at the end she handed me a list of questions, which I’ll list here. 1. Is God real? 2. If he…
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