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scapegoating requires denying reality

January 11, 2023 January 10, 2023 / cybernetics, emotions, rationalization, reality, regulation, scapegoating / 1 minute of reading

When something doesn’t go right, we find somebody/something to pin it on. While unfair, condemning an external other provides two …

December 3, 2022 December 3, 2022 / delusion, life, reality / 1 minute of reading

We tend to map our reality, values, and principles onto our situations. We project onto others what we wish, which …

November 15, 2022 November 15, 2022 / illusion, manipulation, propaganda, reality / 1 minute of reading

Directors, like Christopher Nolan, use the master manipulator as the protagonist. This "hero" sells illusions within illusions for their own …

November 3, 2022 November 2, 2022 / emotions, perspective, reality, shock, trauma / 1 minute of reading

Even after a brutal realization, you don’t have to live in it; you can hold it and realize everything that …

October 21, 2022 October 20, 2022 / help, perception, reality / 1 minute of reading

The things designed to help us get in the way. Concepts, tutorials, or punishment: they are the thing that keeps …

September 2, 2022 September 6, 2022 / failure, predicting, reality / 1 minute of reading

Our reasoning is sound: given this then that. But if our given assumption is not real then a myth has …

July 5, 2022 July 3, 2022 / achievement, modernity, nature, reality / 1 minute of reading

Ever since the reasoning mind was granted dominance, our war against nature has increasingly mirrored a split from reality. Since …