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Will I ever stop having cringe takes? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by dil@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Over the past few years, I've been sliding left ideologically, and as I move further left my old positions seem cringy.

That's expected when you change your worldview and realize you were parroting (e.g.) CIA propaganda, but it's left me feeling a bit ungrounded. I'm worried that in another year I'll look back and think my current views are dumb. Tbh, they almost certainly are.

Does this go away eventually? Or are y'all constantly refining your understanding, so you always dislike your views from a year ago?

Also:

If folks leave, where do they go from here? Are they just picking their preferred flavor of communism/anarchism? Are there other categories of leftism that they're heading to? I'm sure some backslide, but I mean heading somewhere new - like I didn't know people actually liked DPRK until I heard about "tankies." I saw a group that doesn't believe in objective reality?

I'm not really expecting to look at anything new and not be a Marxist, but I'd like to know what's out there to be sure.

I just wanna pick one goddamn worldview, never change it, and still be right about everything all the time. Is that so much to ask?

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no. they are the necessary precondition to good takes...

thing is called growth , and the point of the growth is for your mind to get a handle on the shit. the best way to teach that is you crinching about the things you onced belived strongly.

as you then will learn how easly you could be tricked to belive the shi and then can analyse how it was made to work on you.

what is tormenting you is a fake ego .. "a terrible master" the opposition of the "good spirit" .. the terrible master controls you via "purity" ..

when half of your comment talks about the "me" the "i want" .. and the necessaty to shortcut the growth , thats the "terrible master" speaking working on you via the "streben nach reinheit" (pursuit of the purity)

answer me this question ? are you guilty of the condition of the world ?

Are you guilty of crinche takes ?

How could you not have crinche takes first ? how would that even work ? the hole structures of cohersion and control exist because they work. They will teach you wrong shit and dull smugness under a false autority and then will make YOU feel guilty about what THEY have teached you that you went on beliving.

you have to acknoledge the fundamental betrayl that was done to you . not crich about it like some personal failour.. its not a personal Failure . It real is not . The "crinche takes" are the result of the totalitarian Enviroment you grew up in. the Asendency from that plane of thought is the triumph.

[–] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Cognitive dissonance is always painful