Intellectual Project
Psychologists love your trauma (and they don’t want you to know what comes next)
Emma Kearneyopen.substack.com
Trauma sells
The narrative: America is too racist and sexist to elect a black woman.
The reality: many women felt their intelligence insulted by the party that forced two terrible ones on us in 2016 and 2024. Men are allowed to vote how they like; it need not be driven by sexism. They don’t owe women anything, and especially not a woman who ignored them her enti
... See moreObservations from recent conversations with liberals/lefties
Universal moral principles don’t exist and aren’t desirable; always do what’s best for you.
Even when I explain that social justice puts me in a box that white people prefer, to white people, it is deflected to be about how white people are still racist, and it’s a question of power.
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The problem of asserting qualitative observations going against dominant narratives
This right here from an astute gentleman is my primary fear about writing the things I do. I frequently am citation-trolled, as though the things I write about have been studied. They mostly haven’t (either because they can’t or because academics these days would cen
... See moreI, like others, am fed up with Democrats not because of their stated positions but because most Democrats around me are unrepentantly arrogant, classist, and self-deluded. I am guilty of the same in years past, so perhaps I see it everywhere now. The arrogance manifests in how they casually dismiss anyone who disagrees as terrible people. Self-delu
... See moreMy refusal to participate in the moralizing linguistic games of the people I’m surrounded by immediately marks me for those people as nothing more than a rube. Further, women particularly use these language games as a social sorting mechanism. Despite being generally non religious, women in this class tend to enforce linguistic piety with religious
... See moreDEI programs can and do alienate people of color
Among what I picked up from
‘sWe Have Never Been Wokeis that DEI programs actually function as exclusionary mechanisms for the people of color they claim to empower. This is because they’re based on language and ideas that people of color who actually climbed into the professional class a
... See moreStoicism isn’t only for men.
While digging myself out of depression and engaging with Cal Newport’s work, I finally was ready to invite Stoic modes of living into my life. These concepts underpin much of cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy. The idea that we can control our reactions even if we can’t control what happens stands in opposition
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