I first heard about this in school, but also on social media there’s been this idea and they’ve say studies suggest that we are negatively biased. Similar to how the say we’re supposedly drawn to negative things better than positive.
I don’t think it’s true. I remember the positive experiences very well. Last night I was pondering what has kept me personally away from moving into a Rightist ideology.
I think large contribution to that is all the people who decided to help me when I needed it the most. I remember them. I want to encourage others to please uplift others when you’re able. They might not return you the favor, but please believe me it can end up steering people in the correct path.
A ruthless world of nothing but spikes just makes people give up hope.
I think the most important thing for us is to stay real. Fake positivity is extremely dangerous.
If you promise someone they will be fine, but they end up not be, you don’t just hurt that person, you hurt their family, friends, individual grief ripples through entire communities.
It creates trauma. I’ve met hundreds of people who refuse to trust anyone because of trauma like this. Just these 100 cases end up rippling through the minds of thousands and those thousands into millions and so on. But because they source has become so alienated and nobody knows how to deal with the cause of the ripples, we’re stuck where we are right now.
I’m not sure if people quite understand that when Rosa said Socialism or Barbarism it wasn’t a question between the two. It was either stay in Barbarism or try to solve it. At least that’s my interoperation. It’s extremely important for us to try to find the source of our problems and address them.
Which requires pragmatic realism. But a Dialectical-Materialist would approach pragmatism with a rather simple rule: Everything in moderation, including moderation. Ironically the rules are extremely simple one could say, but sticking to them is nearly impossible, in our world, because it was build on different set of rules.
More on a tangent here, but I’ve discussed psychology with very long time serving doctors in the field, one of them used dialectical behavior therapy to treat patients with personality disorders. He told me that there’s people that are classified as “BPD” and on the flipside there’s people who are classified under “NPD” and when he explained the criteria, it almost sounded like he is describing ultra-leftist and a fascist. Now I have to stress the point here that political ideology is not mental health issue. There are certainly people with disorders in any political group, they are not there because of their mental health issues. This is for anyone reading. Since it’s a public forum I speak in I try to assume I’m being publicly observed by potential newbies. This is not to claim the reader is necessarily ignorant.
But what’s interesting to me is that he said BPD patients have a 90% success rate of recovery within 3-4 years of treatment. While NPD has a 10% recovery rate. And that make me wonder if the reason why someone with NPD fails to recover, because of personal failings or is it because our world encourages their self-destructive maladaptive behavior?
It made me think about how we can fairly easily convert an Ultra to a Marxist, but to change a Fascist into a socialist would require to re-organize the entire system. which again leads us to pragmatic road. Not left or right, but bouncing between the values of the two and taking only the appropriate ones.
I could also be wrong. I always highly welcome critique, but sometimes I might be in a state of despair and then act rash against my own words. It’s annoying. Apologies everyone. All the 5 people reading this lol