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Agreed. Except now, idealization doesn't only apply to "white picket fence" experiences or "going to college." Now it applies to inner identity, and sometimes a
by nathanaldensr 5y ago
Agreed. Except now, idealization doesn't only apply to "white picket fence" experiences or "going to college." Now it applies to inner identity, and sometimes aggressive or even militant external identities. It's an impossible situation for a parent. Sometimes, the only way for the parent to survive emotionally is to allow the child to fail and hopefully learn from the failure.
- Apocryphon 5y agoHave to wonder if that identity is the final refuge of generations that feel helpless and worse-off than prior ones.
- dabbledash 5y agoWhich suggests maybe we aren’t doing a good job teaching history.
- NortySpock 5y agoOr someone isn't looking out the front windscreen to worry about climate change looming ahead...
- rayiner 5y agoOr current events.