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I encourage you to use a similar process with other parts you are ashamed of or fear—maybe the one that gives you embarrassing sexual fantasies, or the one that thinks Donald Trump is great, or the part that secretly delights when your friends fail, or the one who believes that men actually are superior to women. We all have parts we don’t want to admit to, even to ourselves. In general, these parts of us are young and misguided inner children. And just like misguided external children, they deserve to receive our guidance and love, rather than our scorn, shame, and abandonment.
No Bad Parts
Richard C. Schwartz and Alanis Morissette
Financial nihilism comes down to an even more fundamental problem. It is an epistemic problem. Many people simply see nothing worth believing in and so they are, in the words of Neil Postman, amusing themselves to death.
The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
read.lukeburgis.com
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
The Will to Change
bell hooks
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