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  1. Feel Great Naked, After You Unlearn What Made You Try 
    Reclaim your body from self-optimisation. Ditch fitness shame, diet culture, and goal-chasing. This post is about movement, meaning, and play instead.
  2. Bert Cooper’s Mad Men koan
    In Mad Men (Season 4, Ep 3 “The Good News”), Bert Cooper says: “A man is whatever room he is in.” and claims it’s a Japanese proverb (though
  3. ludic hermeneutics of cultural transformation
    Five thinkers: James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist who revolutionized literary form through works like “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake,”
  4. Perspective on Psychological Work
    We often fall into the trap of believing that we are defined by our pasts, that we are our past. The past, however, is merely a construction of the
  5. monoculture and cultural diversity
    This prologue is the story of personal experiences that drew me to the search and gave rise to critical insights In my youth, I had no concept of
  6. shared culture and getting our story wrong
    the shared culture of a people serves as a lens that shapes the perceptions and behavior of its members in ways both beneficial and destructive.
  7. mass consumerism and excessive overconsumption
    the acquisitive consumption, where things are acquired at a scale that exceeds one’s needs, or even one’s capacity to consume repetitive consumption
  8. new communalists and new left
    New Communalists, who believed that a cocktail of personal computing and psychedelic drugs could offer refuge from government power and the struggle
  9. beeing a grown-up in a contemporary culture
    contemporary culture … been grown-ups through responsibly exercising parental, fiduciary, relational, and societal roles … we play all these mature
  10. patterns of cultural influences and personal biographies
    where we find patterns, we also will likely find core, emotion-laden ideas within us … internalised messages from daily life (from popular media,
  11. six stages of ancestral passage to adulthood
    in traditional societies … growing up was a matter of survival … the transition from the naiveté and dependency of childhood to adult sensibilities
  12. freedom to choose recoils in anxiety of change
    never in human history have individuals been freer to choose their life path, their values, and to serve what is true for them. what is most
  13. doubt protects mystery from stagnation
    the doubt which keeps alive the dialectical values, and therefore protects a culture from reification and stagnation, also serves to enliven the
  14. gender and other cultural fantiasies
    while sex is biologically driven, gender is socially construed, and constricting definitions for men and women then have proved still another of
  15. the end of history
    Francis Fukuyama 1989 & 2022 the phrase “the end of history” was coined by Hegel (the first philosopher to speak the language of modern social
  16. white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
    a term coined by the late feminist critic and social theorist Bell Hooks that describes a system that benefits from inequality and exploitation, and
  17. confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies
    over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad …
  18. psychotherapy assumption processing traumas
    our assumption, our fantasy, in psychoanalysis has been that we’re going to process, we’re going to grow, and we’re going to level things out so
  19. accumulated sensory and cultural experiences
    (there are) sensory and cultural experiences that we all accumulate through living in a physical and social world; experiences that result from
  20. tech engineers desire
    engineering desire, is the approach of Silicon Valley, authoritarian governments … happens in labs, with cold, lifeless instruments … use
  21. the slavery of the machine
    It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure. It is impossible to sweep the streets with mental,
  22. conformity and artistic novelty
    Most people go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other
  23. true artist and amusing craftsman
    The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself, takes no notice whatever of the public, a beautiful
  24. public beauty and novelty
    The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. The vitality and progress of art depend in a large measure on the continual extension of
  25. social classes partial realisation
    No class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them … The
  26. all hipsters look alike
    for a hipster, the rival is popular culture—he eschews anything popular and embraces what he believes to be eclectic, but he does so according to
  27. distinctions between good and poor taste
    Taste is an individual’s pattern of preferences for certain qualities of form over others. Social and cultural experiences influence taste, so our
  28. Can’t Get You Out of My Head 
    Lucy Mangan (in The Guardian’s review of Curtis’s 2021 series): The six hour-and-bit long documentaries set out to tell no more and no less than how
  29. personal names in tribal societies
    It’s an interesting, very significant detail that in the tribal societies, which we think have the least individuality, people have the most
  30. sophisticated therapeutic class
    The sophisticated “therapeutic class” who come to private therapy have their stories already formed into the therapeutic genre, that is, the story
  31. picaresque mode parody of the individuation
    the realm of picaresque reflection, of seeing through every established stance, yet without moral implication … to the society which to the
  32. Technological Society
    fear of being without a phone
  33. Gurdjieff and Kundabuffer
    teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff who grew up in the Caucasus region of the Russian steppes and explored the Essene and Sufi traditions in central Asia,
  34. three levels system in society
    Societies before the modern era and those still functioning in less-developed parts of the world believe that most people are to be left permanently

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