Yes, it does take hard work to face fears. I think our culture of safetyism is making it worse too. People feel like it's ok to not face their fears and to run and hide from them, which just makes them grow larger.
This is made worse by legions of people actively searching for outrage. So if you are avoidant there are no end of campaigns reinforcing the sense you are correct to feel the way you do because others seek to use this to gain advantage.
Where I am domestic violence is one such campaign despite being rare. It is very well funded too to the extent many women think it is commonplace. The court records say otherwise.
And made worse by the fact fear itself can be useful. It is not an artificial feeling, just inappropriate in the examples listed. So it has an authenticity to it making it all the harder for people to see beyond and work to combat it.
Barbara you might this post I did years ago. I came up with the idea when looking at a shampoo bottle in the shower. It speaks to what you're getting at.
I agree that leftists (if that's what you mean by liberal) often "pick a team" (savior), idolize it, and defend it even if they don't know all about it or it's shortcomings. It is likely they don't know what they stand for because when you're in the drama triangle it's the emotions that rule, not logic. You can find yourself with motivated reasoning (I wrote an article on that) to not learn any more information about a topic. This keeps people stuck claiming to stand for something without knowing the problems and also being contradictory when their mood shifts and they want to blame someone else now.
There is definitely a reason to "find oneself" though. I think we were all taught things about ourselves that were not true, and it's up to us to stop believing things that aren't true. I don't know that people on the left actually do that too much. But I agree with letting go of useless erroneous beliefs about oneself to get to the heart of who we actually are, so we can be authentic.
I don't believe in the endlessly identifying as a label though, because that's detrimental.
I'm not sure I've ever met a leftist who would say "someone else will come along and fix it." Though I do believe if left to nature, things would eventually get fixed if all were taking personal responsibility and not forcing things against nature.
Yeah, there are no more "liberals" really. Back when I wrote it, I don't know if many people using the term leftist. But yeah, same thing for the sake of my article. 😉👉
Fear is an easy emotion to make. It feeds itself. It takes hard work to accept and to dismiss fears.
Yes, it does take hard work to face fears. I think our culture of safetyism is making it worse too. People feel like it's ok to not face their fears and to run and hide from them, which just makes them grow larger.
This is made worse by legions of people actively searching for outrage. So if you are avoidant there are no end of campaigns reinforcing the sense you are correct to feel the way you do because others seek to use this to gain advantage.
Where I am domestic violence is one such campaign despite being rare. It is very well funded too to the extent many women think it is commonplace. The court records say otherwise.
And made worse by the fact fear itself can be useful. It is not an artificial feeling, just inappropriate in the examples listed. So it has an authenticity to it making it all the harder for people to see beyond and work to combat it.
Succinct and correct analysis!
Barbara you might this post I did years ago. I came up with the idea when looking at a shampoo bottle in the shower. It speaks to what you're getting at.
http://winduprubberfinger.com/blog1.php/2011/06/07/liberals-the-philosophy-of-shampoo
I agree that leftists (if that's what you mean by liberal) often "pick a team" (savior), idolize it, and defend it even if they don't know all about it or it's shortcomings. It is likely they don't know what they stand for because when you're in the drama triangle it's the emotions that rule, not logic. You can find yourself with motivated reasoning (I wrote an article on that) to not learn any more information about a topic. This keeps people stuck claiming to stand for something without knowing the problems and also being contradictory when their mood shifts and they want to blame someone else now.
There is definitely a reason to "find oneself" though. I think we were all taught things about ourselves that were not true, and it's up to us to stop believing things that aren't true. I don't know that people on the left actually do that too much. But I agree with letting go of useless erroneous beliefs about oneself to get to the heart of who we actually are, so we can be authentic.
I don't believe in the endlessly identifying as a label though, because that's detrimental.
I'm not sure I've ever met a leftist who would say "someone else will come along and fix it." Though I do believe if left to nature, things would eventually get fixed if all were taking personal responsibility and not forcing things against nature.
Anyway, interesting reading. Thanks.
Yeah, there are no more "liberals" really. Back when I wrote it, I don't know if many people using the term leftist. But yeah, same thing for the sake of my article. 😉👉
Hmm... too male, too pale, too stale... sounds like I'm obsolete.
Obsolete to people who aren't worth worrying about. The "normal" sane people aren't going to throw you out based on looks/sex.