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Sep 19, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
This week’s #WeirdandGud is a warning label for those who flippantly wield an ancient weapon — ostracism.

spiritualsoap.substack.com/p/weird-and-gd…
No surprise here: humans have been canceling each other for eternity. We have built-in cancellation threat receptors.

Social rejection meant death for most of history, so your brain still treats it as such.
Ostracizing truly dangerous people from a community is a means of survival.

Ostracizing people who’s differences we simply perceive as a threat is veiled conformity.
While acquiescing to our tribe of 50 people to avoid rejection was reasonable, pleasing the billions we’re connected to online is a suicide mission.
We still relish in using our ancient weapon of ostracism, but in a tribe of billions, there’s always someone to punish.

Outdated tools are too blunt for careless use in a modern world.
Knowing ostracism has been used since the dawn of humans and stirs a primal dread in us even today,

threatening every offense with a social death sentence might make you the real threat.

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Jan 18, 2023
I'm writing a series on how I went from a pathological people-pleaser who only used my words to gain approval from all the wrong people to the truth-seeking, free-expression fanatic I am now.

It's a process of transformation we all need in some way. spiritualsoap.substack.com/p/dont-yell-do…
"Honest, thoughtful expression is fucking hard—not just hard but fucking hard;

it’s taking off your suit of anonymous armor and bearing the soft, true flesh of your genuine self." (spiritualsoap.substack.com/p/dont-yell-do…)
"This constantly changing landscape of acceptable ideas isn’t an accident;

when what’s acceptable is eternally in flux, the only way to be acceptable is by giving up originality and taking your cue from others instead." (spiritualsoap.substack.com/p/dont-yell-do…)
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Nov 23, 2022
I’m tired of westerners blaming society for their personal problems.

Society has only provided you medicine, electricity, an abundance of food, technology, and endless entertainment but it didn’t teach you how to manage yourself well enough to use these resources, so it’s evil?
When I was younger (and miserable, unproductive, and self-deceitful), my pattern was to identify a problem and simply invent a narrative for why society was to blame.

The opportunity to create the life I wanted wasn’t enough—society should give it to me, too.
The problem with most attempts at identifying the problems in our society is how one-sided the analysis is.

Every problem is assessed in a vacuum instead of in contrast to the progress that’s occurred alongside it; this breeds a naive, entitled, unrealistic analysis of society.
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Aug 9, 2022
Wrong. A massive portion of the world still believes women are inherently “inferior.” Are all those people worthless to engage with to you?

Holding a detestable view is exactly when curiosity for what spurs that view is most powerful.
It doesn’t make you a bad person to recognize the difference between trying to understand a detestable view point and approving of it—

it makes you a normal person who values reason, discussion, and freedom in human relationships.

Stop being cowed into meekness.
This is a loser’s game.

Once you allow the extremes to prove why some people are worthless to understand, you’ll never stop the ever-expanding circle of “worthless” views.

You’re scared you’ll seem like a “bad person” if you pushback, and so you lose.
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Aug 9, 2022
I know this can be hollow woo-woo stuff, but the way contemporary leftism perfectly matches the “unhealthy feminine” versus healthy feminine traits is worth considering.
Contemporary leftist politics are deeply pathological; within its pathology, there’s an answer to some un-confronted cultural sickness.

An individual that claims compassion while applying cruelty is by definition, backwards—a group is no exception.
My theory is that leftism has become a mask for the inner turmoil of generations who were taught “kindness is everything”—even above honesty or integrity.

Leftism offers a place for those who feel such pain over being thought of as “bad” that they’ll cause pain to avoid it.
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Oct 18, 2021
How to develop an unoriginal, unclear, and easily manipulated thought process:
Use your phone to consume media and communication within the first hour of waking.

Immediately let the external world dictate your thought process.
Don’t write. Writing requires thinking more deeply about your ideas.

If you must write, be sure to write with a rigid outcome in mind, bending reason and language to make your point, rather than dissect your point.
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Jan 5, 2021
I deeply resent the progress being lost to the spread of postmodern leftism.

Where we could have been moving forward, we're instead rehashing once-settled concepts like the value of free speech.

It's an absolute waste.
Perhaps for those who don't know history, it's interesting to debate whether free speech is actually good.

For those whose knowledge of history expands past their own life, we know why you don't grant even a "good" government the power to silence its people.
Some people argue against regressive leftism because they know the ditches it will dig.

I respect their effort, but personally, I am fucking bored of debating whether or not to adopt failed ideas for the 100th time.
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