AloneIBreak posted...
Thats been his thing lately.
The Coddling of the American Mind
was good. Im reading through
The Righteous Mind
right now and its promising. Im not too deep into it yet but I know from what Ive read so far hell be presenting some ideas contrary to my own.
Unlike the rest of this board which would rather spend no time in any sort of self-challenging contemplation
(see previous poster who openly and proudly declared no engagement with the authors written and most serious material), Im looking forward to it.
lmao
Lacking interest in reading Haidt doesn't mean I lack a desire to engage in self challenging contemplation
I've done plenty over the years, it (and the unceasing help of friends that saw the path I was on) brought me out of being a racist tool of what would now be considered the alt-right
I'll admit I haven't actively engaged with Haidt since my freshman year of college in like 2009 or whatever, but have no real desire to
Engaging with academic writing and theory is intense work and honestly I don't have the energy for it in my current life situation. Working through debt and ever more precarious financial situations is a drain on my mental health (which is not great even without this shit. Depression and brain fog etc)
Any time I would spend on 'serious thought' is really replaced with shit that even temporarily makes me feel something somewhat positive
So I'll apologize for being antagonistic, no reason to have done so, but yeah I'm probably not going to desire engaging with Haidt anytime soon in any serious capacity
And if I do find myself better off enough to do serious theory reading I have Marx and other leftist theory to actually engage seriously first