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“In the tradition we are dealing with, it was considered obstinacy and was therefore frowned upon to have a will and mind of one's own. It is easy to understand that an intelligent child would want to escape punishments devised for those possessing these traits and that he or she could do so without any difficulty. What the child didn't realize was that escape came at a high price.”

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Alice Miller

Alice Miller, born on January 12, 1923, and died on April 12, 2010, was a renowned psychologist. Her research focused on child psychology and the psychology of abuse, delving deeply into the psychological impact of child abuse and neglect. more

“Can we advance the hypothesis that, beyond the critical stage, the heroic stage (which is still that of metaphysics), there is an ironic stage of technology, an ironic stage of history, an ironic stage of value, etc.? This would free us from the Heideggerian view of technology as the effectuation, and the last stage, of metaphysics; it would free us from all retrospective nostalgia for being, giving us, rather, a gigantic objective irony, a superior intuition of the illusoriness of all this process - which would not be far from the radical post-historical snobbery Alexandre Kojeve spoke of. At the heart of this artificial reality, this Virtual Reality, this irony is perhaps all we have left of the original illusion, which at least preserves us from any temptation one day to possess the truth.”

Illusion Irony Heroism Being Critique Non Being Reality Principle

Book:The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“You cannot negotiate with reality. Every lie you cling to is a step behind the world, and every step behind is a wound in your life and your civilization.”

Mindfulness Stoicism Self Deception Cognitive Dissonance Radical Acceptance Personal Accountability Civilizational Decline Reality Principle Anti Delusion Existential Truth

Book:KNOW YOUR ENEMIES: Familiarity is camouflage

Source: KNOW YOUR ENEMIES: Familiarity is camouflage

“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.”

Connections Tunnels Dysfunctional Families

Book:Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster