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I wonder if there'll come a time when people graduate to thinking in tones of grey, rather than trying to boil life down to fortune cookies, or if it's just lim
by alexashka 6y ago
I wonder if there'll come a time when people graduate to thinking in tones of grey, rather than trying to boil life down to fortune cookies, or if it's just limited by people's brains.
Take this for instance:
> Self storytelling is so essential for people that one of the most effective techniques for treating depression and anxiety boils down to "tell yourself better stories."
This is trivially false and the author doesn't seem to feel any need to substantiate this wild claim. He's stuck in fortune cookie world where you can just say shit, as long as it feels/sounds good.
Hopefully the internet will expose fortune cookie thinkers to people who actually use their brains for more than talking out of their ass and it'll be a rude wake-up call. Of course brainless people are on a holy crusade to ban speech that doesn't agree with their idiotic ideology, so we'll see who wins out in the end. If history is any indication - idiotic beliefs lose out in the long run, but they sure can destroy a whole lot of lives for centuries in the process.
- throwaway98797 6y agoSounds like fortune cookie thinking works for some people. Given your angry? tone it seems like your better way of thinking isn’t working. Unless you like sounding the way you do.
- zcw100 6y agoI like the way he sounds. Sometimes anger is the correct response.