The ideology that there are some people who function according to psychology and others who function according to reason was shown to be wrong sometime around the 50s, when it was discovered that everybody has a psychological breaking point. Before that time, it was assumed that some people were susceptible to breaking down (“shell shock” was considered a crime stemming from moral cowardice during World War 1) and some people who were above that.
This is not to say that some people do not have seemingly innate advantages over others in terms of being psychologically robust. Many women in the West and from other cultures face psychological battles in terms of how they’ve learned to see themselves.
Early cultural conditioning can really make or break us. I have many advantages (although a lot of disadvantages too) that stem from my early cultural upbringing. On the plus side, it is impossible for anyone to impose a judgment on me by looking down on me. I just can’t believe this order of judgment can be anything other than a sign of imbecility on the part of the one who presumes to do so. This is my direct reaction due to coming from an arrogant master-race culture (that's was the colonial perspective at that time). I’m very psychologically robust on that point.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism
This is not to say that some people do not have seemingly innate advantages over others in terms of being psychologically robust. Many women in the West and from other cultures face psychological battles in terms of how they’ve learned to see themselves.
Early cultural conditioning can really make or break us. I have many advantages (although a lot of disadvantages too) that stem from my early cultural upbringing. On the plus side, it is impossible for anyone to impose a judgment on me by looking down on me. I just can’t believe this order of judgment can be anything other than a sign of imbecility on the part of the one who presumes to do so. This is my direct reaction due to coming from an arrogant master-race culture (that's was the colonial perspective at that time). I’m very psychologically robust on that point.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism
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