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Thanks for your comment. I don't even know if I agree with myself politically. I don't claim any position on the spectrum and would rather transcend it than fin
by themodelplumber 5y ago
Thanks for your comment. I don't even know if I agree with myself politically. I don't claim any position on the spectrum and would rather transcend it than find a place to stay. In my professional training I was taught to watch how human psychology and control dynamics emerge from less-conscious zones of human perception and judgment. To me this paints a different picture of politics than I think most would acknowledge.
- ironSkillet 5y agoVery well said regarding politics - I have trouble having useful political discussions with almost anyone, right or left, because everything is now framed as "good" vs "evil" or "enlightened" vs "sheep" instead of actually taking stock of the forces of psychology, economics, and legitimately different values that are really driving the political environment we live in.
- tomcam 5y agoYes. I would love to engage in a civil way but find it literally impossible except with people who agree with me... so why bother?
- toss1 5y agoWhat are your thoughts on the likelihood of success of the push from the right to implement minority control in US politics? If successful, this could have large consequences.
- tomcam 5y agoWhat's happening there? Haven't heard of it.
- themodelplumber 5y agoIt takes me out of my big-picture wheelhouse, so I personally find it harder (because less energy-yielding/interesting) to follow this kind of thing. I definitely noticed how much the US right began to project a mighty image in the last couple decades, the imagery and storytelling of which took on a rather fantastic, near-pornographic character. In off-the-cuff analyses of its storytellers' psychology, I found that they were uniformly less depth-oriented than impact-oriented. To me this is almost never good news in terms of actual might. I could also see a massive return to centrism as the human-group organism feels around for equilibrium. Really spitballin' here though. Sorry I can't really speculate in more precise terms on that issue.
- tomcam 5y ago> In my professional training I was taught to watch how human psychology and control dynamics emerge from less-conscious zones of human perception and judgment. To me this paints a different picture of politics than I think most would acknowledge. Most cool! I try to do the same. Probably awful at it because I suspect I'm somewhere on the spectrum, but still trying in my 7th decade to understand or at least be sensitive to nonverbal cues. What was your professional training?
- themodelplumber 5y agoThanks for your comment. I started out in tech, but was then trained as a group trainer, then as a coach, then as a jungian- and neo-jungian-oriented coach. My coaching mentors were psychologists and psychiatrists who saw value in depth-oriented coaching. This got into admittedly weird territory for a techie; my theory of my objective brilliance died a few deaths in there, with more to go. ;-) I learned with disgust how much my buried subjective preferences push me toward tech and attempt to dictate my political views, my food choices, etc. Still, as a result one can begin to apply a lot of really cool models to understand what kind of politics would be exemplary, and maybe just don't exist yet for example. It's been an interesting path, but there are lots of interesting paths out there, yours included I'm sure.
- tomcam 5y agoWell I totally want to read your blog, or book, or see you YouTube channel!