...and why they often just make you angrier.
Empathy CAN change you... but sometimes like an abused child into a child abuser yourself (ala Stockholm Syndrome/ Patty Hearst).
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Nietzsche
Formalized Intersectional or other Oedipal/ Political categorization is also a defense mechanism against empathy and synthesis. I don't want to Identify WITH you or your thesis. You are 'other' and I don't WANT to change my anti-thesis. I need my Ego's anger to fend you off and prevent any self-reflection induced changes to my Super-Ego through synthesis of arguments or positions, thereby avoiding acceptance and experience of the immediate Ego shame that might reduce my anxiety but also increase my own sense of self-guilt through transmutation of your external ethics into my internalized Ego/ Super-Ego based morality.
...and cuz Orange Man BAD!
:-))))
ReplyDeleteOh, but we do.
Most noticeable, when you are banned. ;-)
That usually means that they have nothing to counter. ;-p
...or "Hitler" comes up. ;)
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