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I am driven by my emotions.

"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."

"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".

aurelien2022.substack.com/p/an

@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel

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Je suis conduit par mes émotions.

« Nos opinions ont généralement des racines émotionnelles plutôt qu'intellectuelles et, en fait, la rationalité sert en grande partie de justification a posteriori. Nos opinions politiques, en fin de compte, sont ce que nous ressentons à propos du monde, et non ce que nous en pensons. Et à leur tour, nos opinions sur des événements particuliers ont beaucoup à voir avec la façon dont nous ressentons le monde en général. Il n'est pas exagéré de dire que les opinions de la plupart des personnes sur le type d'événements qui se produisent aujourd'hui sont le prolongement des préoccupations de leur propre ego. Par conséquent, les invitations à changer d'avis parce que de nouveaux faits apparaissent, ou parce que des idées anciennes sont discréditées par de nouvelles preuves, constituent en fait une menace pour la force et même la survie de ce moi. »

« Mais peu de personnes, en particulier celles qui ont reçu une éducation convenable, veulent reconnaître que leurs opinions sont fondées sur l'émotion et non sur la raison. Elles tentent donc d'argumenter ».

(en) aurelien2022.substack.com/p/an

First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
—Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

🧵 @socialpsych

This week Donald Trump is in two courts defending his sacred right to call in troll storms on his enemies
— even if those enemies are witnesses against him in ongoing criminal cases.

⭐️In the stolen documents case in Florida, Trump called the special counsel’s motion to stop him from spreading vicious lies about the FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago a
“naked effort to impose totalitarian censorship of core political speech, under threat of incarceration, in a clear attempt to silence President Trump’s arguments to the American people about the outrageous nature of this investigation and prosecution.”

⭐️And in the New York prosecution for false business records, his lawyers argued that
“The suggestion that President Trump would be subject to unlawful prior restraints in a post-trial presidential debate is one of the clearest illustrations that the District Attorney, like President Biden and their overlapping cast of associates, are relying on the Gag Order as part of a lawfare strategy to try to accomplish in courtrooms what they have been unsuccessfully pursuing on the campaign trial.”

This #feigned #indignation covers up 💥the inherent violence of Trump’s position💥.

In both cases, 🔥he demands the right to paint a target on the back of law enforcement agents, line prosecutors, and even jurors. 🔥

Not only does he call it “legitimate” political speech,
👉he insists it’s vital to his campaign to lie and target civil servants, endangering them and their families.

publicnotice.co/p/trump-gag-or

Public Notice · Trump asserts constitutional right to harass FBI agentsBy Liz Dye
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Christophe Cassou, climatologue : « En colère contre moi car je prends en pleine figure une forme de naïveté. Il est maintenant clair que les décisions et choix qui entravent inévitablement la réussite d’une métamorphose sociétale vers des modes de vie bas-carbone sont pris en conscience & connaissance. »

Clément Sénéchal : frustrationmagazine.fr/scienti

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"Les expressions de #fragilité révèlent une stratégie calculée et délibérée consistant à insister sur le statut de victime lorsqu'on est mis en cause."

L'indignation utilise la perte de la prérogative, exclusive et perpétuelle, de transgresser les limites des autres, mais de ne jamais accepter de voir ses propres limites transgressées.

Randa Abdel-Fattah : (en) mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zion @sociologie @israel @supremacisme@chirp.social @supremacisme@a.gup.pe

Mondoweiss · On Zionist feelingsThe feelings and fragility of Zionists are used as a rhetorical shield to deflect from the reality of Palestinian genocide. I refuse to provide reassurances to placate and soothe Zionist political anxieties.

Empathy

Previously I’ve mentioned David Gross who’s written a long series of articles on virtues. It’s worth discovering his Notes on Empathy.

The basis of empathy is being able to see things from someone else’s point of view. Empathy lets us ‘walk a mile in another man’s shoes’, look at the world through the eyes of another, or any number of other now-clichéd phrases. But while that perspective-taking seems intimately tied to the emotion of the thing – you walk in someone’s shoes to feel their pain, look through their eyes to understand their feelings – it need not be. As recent research suggests, there are times when becoming too emotionally involved actually stifles our empathetic capacity.

~ Maria Konnikova from, Empathy depends on a cool head as much as a warm heart | Aeon Essays

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I wonder the ordering of the following shifts in my experience, and how these shifts influenced each other: The decrease in the frequency, duration, and intensity of anger I feel? The realization that the anger I was feeling was not—certainly not as often as I believed it was—righteous indignation, nor even true indignation? The understanding of what petulance is and feels like? The increasingly frequent experience of empathy and the emotional experiences it enables? The shift to experiencing frustrations (in the noun-sense that a door is a frustration to movement) as opportunities for further exploration, rather than as blockades and existential crises?

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