CapitalismsRefugee

Oh for sure, unironically the free market needs to get fucked

Jesus... I hate reality

I don't know how to show my ultra capitalist family how ultra capitalism is literally the thing causing all of the problems they blame "libruls" for.

Fuck

Oh jesus, tag this kind of thing next time!

I regret to inform you all of the passing of this account's user. CapitalismsRefugee was found dead of cyanide poisoning.

Well yippee, that's handy. I have eaten apples whole for years, the same thought never occurred to me for strawberries.

Oh my god! This is Theory of the Mind! What you're referring to as the 'conception of the reality of others' is I think what is called Theory of the Mind!

I was chasing the idea down through google-available scholarly journals the other day. The theory of the mind is the ability for a person to understand others don't share the same experience of reality as themselves. This is something that people develop around three or four years old. I was reading about how the possession of language affects the development and retention of this ability that humans are supposed to achieve.

It's easier for me to describe my understanding of Theory of the Mind by explaining the way it's tested for in children.

The test proctor shows the child where they hide an object in a room, then leaves the room. While the proctor is outside, another person comes into the room and moves the object from where it is hidden to some other place, the child is watching them do this. The proctor returns to the room to retrieve the object and someone asks the child where the proctor will look. Children who haven't reached the mental development / maturity where they recognize others aren't simply copies of themselves will answer that the proctor will look where the child saw it moved. Children who have obtained a 'theory of the mind' will know the proctor didn't see the object moved and will look first for it where the child saw the proctor hide it.

I was ruminating on this and thinking how Theory of the Mind is the missing piece to so much of the culture war bullshit conservatives obsess over;

• When a homeless person who doesn't 'look' disabled is begging for money, they know the person is just lazy;

Because laziness is the only reason they would beg on the street 'obviously' laziness is the only reason a person would beg!

• When somebody has an undiagnosed mental health issue and is discussing suicide, that person is just making immature and manipulative threats;

Nobody has a mind that doesn't work exactly like theirs and since they can't imagine craving suicide this person's reasons are obviously fabrications!

• They can't understand that male-bodied persons who identify as anything-other-than-male would want to use women's restrooms for any reason other than horny rape shit because that's what they would do!;

They don't understand that different people have different reasons and desires and haven't lived exactly the same life as them.

All of it?

Ironic

In my own example, I assumed it was a synonym with toxic MRA. Glad to hear it apparently is not.

Fuck, I don't get it... I can't find the pun?

I don't have personal experience with anxiety in this way but what you describe, having a reaction to the approach of an unknown potential danger, sounds like an entirely reasonable defense mechanism for a person to have developed.

And when approaching the stranger is your choice and your action, I can understand why your "defense mechanisms" / "reflexive anxiety" wouldn't react the same way. The trigger for the anxiety is the unknown danger that approaches with no regard for your choice. If instead it is your choice to approach then even if there is a danger, or the unknown potential for danger, at least it is your own choice to approach that danger?

I appreciate this...