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"3. The progressive narrative of tolerance and inclusion where any identity (including the badly wired one) has to be celebrated unquestioningly."--- this one is also linked to philosophical idealism --- the idea that we are able to removed from our bodies and live out our lives in transcendence of them. Thus certain unfortunate, incohesive states of mind can be viewed as requiring "a radical ontology", as if what had been required is a simple relabeling of the negative into something interesting. But what if nonetheless the person goes on suffering?
Philosophical idealism is, unfortunately appealing to the intelligentsia. As an extreme example, Mike once told me of this genius-level woman he met at Stanford. "She went on to become a breatharian," he told me. She believed she could live purely on air.
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