Breaking my vow to cease posting...
Gar Lipow wrote:
...In the absence of any meaningful left movement considering the larger power structure is useless to them on a day-to-day level. Considering themselves 100% responsible for every part of their lives is probably the best coping mechanism to help deal with the terrible work load and pressure "making it" requires of them in a world where NOT "making it" comes with dreadful penalties. Those who don't "make it' while holding this view will suffer worse for lack of any perspective that does not lay 100% of the blame on them, but overall from an atomistic point of the view, the benefits of ignorance are probably exceed those of knowledge in this area...
I write:
Thoughtful analysis. Through painful trial and error, I've discovered that serious interpersonal relationships, especially those that involve mutual sacrifice and joint decision-making, between two people differently oriented to this realm --one taking a "pessimistic"/structural perspective, the other taking an "optimistic"/voluntarist one -- are very challenging.
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