I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/who-am-i?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=masto

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TL;DR: Curiosity about yourself and others can bridge gaps created by divisive political and religious rhetoric.

Kind of interesting, as Lorna Goldberg is one of the cult researchers I originally learned from and look up to. I eventually met her at an ICSA conference way back when, probably a couple of years before this, where I went to speak and because of my lack of academic background, felt like a total nobody outsider. So reading this is a bit meta for me, learning about her feelings of vulnerability and how she views the world is not too different from me.

My thoughts go to how trauma isolates us from each other. This is a facet of Abuse Culture that keeps us from cooperating and learning of each other so we can throw off the abusers in our lives, be they one-on-one or leaders of society. Curiosity is the cure for that, too.

This article is through the psychoanalytic lens, and leans a bit academic, but is readable and thought-provoking.

https://icsahome-my.sharepoint.com/personal/admin_icsahome_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fadmin_icsahome_com%2FDocuments%2FDropbox%2FProgramming%2FICSA%20TODAY%20ONLINE%2FClassics%2FWe%20Disagree%20-%20Let%27s%20Talk%20Goldberg%202019%2E10%2E1%2FWe%20Disagree%E2%80%94Let%E2%80%99s%20Talk%21%20Goldberg%2E%20v10%281%29%202019%2C%2010-15%2Epdf%20MAGAZINE%20VERSION%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Fadmin_icsahome_com%2FDocuments%2FDropbox%2FProgramming%2FICSA%20TODAY%20ONLINE%2FClassics%2FWe%20Disagree%20-%20Let%27s%20Talk%20Goldberg%202019%2E10%2E1&ga=1

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“The Socratic dialogues and the parables of Jesus show time and again: virtue is gained through a sustained examination of both ourselves and the world around us. Such a constant inspection of creation, when done well, exposes both our faults and the solutions to them.”

https://lawliberty.org/recovering-virtue-means-recovering-self-government/

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