For the sake of viewpoint diversity / productively critical clash of ideas:
The #SobSquad movement falls into "most disagree + I don't yet have an argument which stands up to their criticism + maybe they know something important".
I have tons of questions about it which'd be cool to hammer out.
Like:
-For traumatised adults only, or would children get value?
-For all hang-ups, or mainly social ones? (Food hang-ups, spider fears?)
-Is it the only way to get desired effects?
-Do you REALLY not suffer‽
-etc
▸ What the heck is happening when someone cries a bunch and then something releases and it feels good after and traumas appear cleared out?
▸ Is crying from being moved by beauty bad‽ If so, why?
▸ Mourning?
▸ How else do you solve deep trauma?
New followers—my thing is a kind of relentless 'positive' focus:
- all problems are soluble
- feeling bad is bad & unnecessary
- feeling bad sabotages thought
- it's always possible to solve problems w/o things getting worse
- local maximum traps are myths
- Step 1. #StopTheHurt
The idea of my whole philosophy is to get away from authority (/force) deciding between ideas.
Rather, using merit instead.
This includes ideas within one person, and subconscious/inexplicit/emotional ideas.
So there's a question: Does crying = badfeels = stuckness = coercion?
My current guess is basically yes, basically bad feelings are the inexplicit guide for what's coercive or wrong avenues of thought. They're implementing critical epistemology on the inexplicit level.
This is why Karl Popper criticised revolutionary epistemologies:
All knowledge is built on existing knowledge.
That's the structure of how epistemology works: you start with a problem—which is inherently based in existing knowledge—and you conjecture variant theories, which are also based on (refer to) existing theories.