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I absolutely despise "positive psychology" and the whole "gratefulness" and "wellness" sector. Being forced to sit through a whole day of "training" on this. This article sums up just how toxic that all is, and why... (archive.is)
posted 3 years ago by bamboozler1 3 years ago by bamboozler1 +37 / -0
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– Adamrises 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

You think its bad in your training. I did a full degree in Psychology. Wherein it was me and 29~ girls in each class, almost all of which adored Positive Psyche.

I loathe "unconditional positive regard" (that's how its taught in the multidiscipline as a foundational requirement) as a concept. I see its value in terms of helping someone open up and maintaining the relationship, but it should absolutely not be a 100% of the time thing.

But the people who love it and "benefit" the most from it are women with massive self confidence issues. Funnily enough, they make up the bulk of both the Psyche field as a whole and its clients. So its women telling women what they want to hear, making smiles and thinking that's having a tangible benefit on their life. Without ever asking "so when am I actually finished with therapy? when does it complete?" and instead thinking its a positive trait that they are in it for a lifetime.

And despite what many may think, most psychologists aren't in it for the money. This isn't a 4D chess scheme to keep them hooked and the money flowing. Most therapists don't make shit, unless they are in the super rich areas with rich clients, and are genuinely deluded on the "I'm helping people" train. They aren't really helping, but it makes them "feel good" and therefore it must be good.

The capitalistic ones are the psychiatrists. The guys with the pills and the marketing scheme, who definitely want your kid to have 3 diagnosis that all need treating.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Also of note, the simps were all, I kid you not, wannabe games artists and developers…

Which says something, doesn’t it, lol?

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– NoEyesNoGroin 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

It's incompetent women deluding each other about what they are, all the way down.

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– Adamrises 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

The problem for me is that at the heart, there are guys doing good work and trying to pull us forward as a society. But as soon as their work leaves their hands, its twisted by these broken women trying to heal others while bleeding all over them.

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– NoEyesNoGroin 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.” - Adam Smith

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– Adamrises 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Under that logic, we shouldn't be allowed guns because bad people might take the guns and use them for bad too even though the majority of people using them are doing so for virtuous means.

Pithy quotes about philosophy should be even more feared. For that terminate thoughts by letting someone else do the thinking for you divorced of any context from which they said it in the first place.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

From a purely psychological perspective, today was an interesting little Millgram test, because you could see how some of the males in the course were willing to turn on their own entire gender and/or race, in order to score a few “brownie points” (lol) with this bitch of a teacher…

They’d be the first to throw one of us “dissidents” under the bus, quite literally, if so ordered, I’m sure of it…

And indeed they did that today, when one “white male” dared to clap back at the instructor…

So much so that he found himself backed up more by a couple of women, than by his fellow (simp) males…

Crazy.

This is why I hate suck-ups, though, because that is how they behave, and that is what they do…

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– Adamrises 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

That's how most of the Psyche training program is. Where sometimes the single dude in the class is either so broken he will sell out his own gender just because he hates it that much, or recognizes he can be drowning in pussy if he says the right thing.

Also, as a nitpick. The Millgram experiment is mostly just a media meme. It was a failure through and through, which is why they had to straight up lie about the data when they sold it to the public. Most people were suspicious from pretty early on, and something like 2/3 of them disobeyed. And of the one's that didn't, a quite a few needed to be outright threatened and browbeat into continuing. Which changes the willingness factor considerably.

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– ArtemisFoul 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I keep wondering about the Milgram experiment. On one hand, it was probably bullshit, yeah.

But on the other hand, it took place in the 1960s. Having witnessed how the average goyim cattle acted over the last 3 years during the coof psycho (and later with Ukraine) really got my wheels turning.

I remember the H1N1 (IIRC) epidemic in 2009 or so. Our government tried to pull something like "Corona-light", they bought a bunch of shots and were talking about how they were going to mandate them for emergency services and seniors etc. The whole nation said "lol fuck off", the government ended up collapsing, about 50k of the ~1 million shots were taken, pretty much all of them by very old people who get flu shots yearly anyway, and the rest was quietly destroyed after expiring, long after everyone forgot about it.

And then, just a little bit over a decade later, The Coof happened. About 10% of people revealed themselves to be overt psychopaths, frothing at the mouth demanding full obedience from everyone else and the destruction of anyone who showed a spine and resisted, and another 50% or so of the population were completely apathetic as the state abused us all and officials lied into our faces.

Something horrible has happened over the last decade, and I really wonder what a proper repeat of the Milgram experiment would look like today. Or maybe I don't, maybe we've already seen it happen on a civilization-wide scale.

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– Adamrises 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Its not that Millgram is completely off the mark, its that in a purely neutral "authority" only experiment most people will resist it heavily.

Once you introduce politics, class schisms, and other hierarchies its almost unnecessary to study because we already know what will happen. Dehumanization, tribalism, and all that jazz makes the "authority" part irrelevant.

Which is what the Coof did. You saw how instantly it was made into a political divide. Because that allowed them to not only make it extremely more brutal than it would otherwise in enforcement, but also "its different when my side does it." Because simply saying "Fauci said X" wouldn't have done much, he was a fucking legendary monster for the Gays who lived through AIDs. They had to say "anyone who resists this is Right wing, hates science and probably is racist" to get the desired result.

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