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And this is why Wallace was wrong to say that “you have to be willing to look honestly at yourself and at your motives for believing what you believe, and to do it more or less continually.” You really can’t do that, which, I believe, he discovered: his ceaseless self-examination caused him ceaseless misery and contributed in a major way to his early death. Better to follow the principle articulated by W. H. Auden: “The same rules apply to self-examination as apply to auricular confession: Be brief, be blunt, be gone.”
The research concluded that **our ability to engage the aMCC and to build up its volume and increase its activity depends on one critical feature: resistance.**
There needs to be a degree of friction—a lack of reflexive desire to engage in the movement.
Another Huberman-Induced Paradigm Shift.
Charlotte Grysolle
Symbolic capitalists aren't a monolith, but it is no secret that their ruling ideology is the constellation of views and attitudes that have come to be known as “wokeness,” which al-Gharbi defines as beliefs about social justice that “inform how mainstream symbolic capitalists understand and pursue their interests'creating highly novel forms of competition and legitimation.”
Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
Thomas Chatterton Williams
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