Negative Psychology
Essays on radical uncertainty
Episodes
46 episodes
Rules Are A Substitute For Consciousness
"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will." - Simone Weil
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6:28
Approval and Disapproval [1]
To belong to a group we must conform to its rules, but this means we are 'putting the rules above ourselves', and doing this leaves us 'wide open to being abused and exploited by the system'...
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5:07
Imposing fake realities
Societal power is the key when it comes to imposing our (fake) reality on others...
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8:05
Thinking creates a virtual reality
Every time we think we create a virtual reality, and we don't know how to stop thinking...
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7:55
Mental health can't be attained by following procedures
Mental health is not a procedural type of thing, and yet procedures are all we know!
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9:16
The Big Impossibility [1]
The one thing we can never ever do is change ourselves on purpose...
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7:24
Addiction [2]
The addiction we never see as such is the addiction to our super-narrow system of thinking. We're addicted to this thinking because it provides us with our idea of who we are, which we are frightened to let go of.
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8:23
Addiction [1]
Our approach to addiction is strictly mechanical in nature (which is to say, it's all about obeying some sort of 'external authority') but the thing about this is that it necessarily involved being addicted to being told what to do by that exte...
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8:23
Pretending Mode [1]
Everything about us is a bluff - it's a bluff that is automatically validated by the social system that we are embedded in, but it's a bluff all the same. It is - moreover - a bluff that is very hard for us to see...
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7:32
The Tokenistic Universe [3]
The way everyday 'normal' life works is that we are sublimely unaware that we are imposing a logical framework on the world and then only taking notice of stuff that agrees with this FW - if we were to start being aware...
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9:56
The Tokenistic Universe [2]
Every time we think (which is the overt action) we also perform another action, a covert one, which is to assume a context within which that thought, that 'statement of fact', actually makes sense...
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8:02
The Tokenistic Universe [1]
When we think we create a virtual reality construct which we proceed to inhabit as if it weren't a virtual reality construct...
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7:55
Taking Away Our Own Freedom
Our strategy in life is to compel ourselves to change by FORCING - which is to say, by 'taking away our own freedom to do otherwise'.
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14:16
The Negative Approach To Anxiety [15]
There can be no such thing as 'concrete goals' in mental health because we don't know what mental health is!
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11:37
