That feeling in the moment of an interaction that is like , “this is a real-time lesson for you. Pay attention.” ?
Well, I had that the other day. Friday, speaking to a friend, she said something about how she had ADHD and there weren’t really good psychologists around to understand it. She went on to say something about how until psychology is de-colonized or something, things wouldn’t change.
I responded, and got this feeling. This feeling of “hey this is important, so pay attention right now”. It was particularly strong and I was actually paying more attention to this feeling than my words. The words just came out as if on their own.
I said basically that psychology as it’s practiced, diagnostics and the DSM5, meds, is not replicable or scientific in any sense. She just listed like it was not touching her, you know?
I wanted to say that one always should judge the merits of any philosophy by it’s own principles. That is the only universal standard which can be applied to anything, anywhere, at any time. It is always a mistake to try to apply ones own pet paradigm to another. It’s just a bias. I thought, or assumed, in that moment of explanation that basically everyone understands this. Except she seemed to dismiss me before I had said anything. She didn’t want to know anything about how psychology failed it’s own explicit standards. She only wanted agreement in acknowledging that her thing was right.
Except today, this morning I got a brainwave about it. I’m the one that missed it. Her principle is to apply her pet paradigm to everything. That’s her value. That’s what she prioritizes and likes to do. That’s what she thinks is right. In that moment, I failed to stalk my friend’s worldview, and instead explained the evidence as if she was educated out of not just that bias, but all of them.
Nobody is there. The matrix is so thick with everything. It’s at once invigorating and discouraging.
My own bias rises up and desires to justify that moment by saying that exposure to the bias against bias’ is beneficial. LMFAO 🤣 that is good. And funny
This world is a world of polarity. It’s polarized. There is nothing at all worse or better about each of our biases. And yet we act like it is so. There are no victims, no perpetrators, no thing at all that we didn’t choose.
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