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6:14am January 27, 2015

Ever get so monochannel that you can’t bring yourself to get mad at someone, or even talk about where their views go horribly wrong and harm people, because the person has had such a positive effect on your life personally? Even though you have as much to lose from some of their views as anybody?

Or conversely, you notice the bad and find ways to cut yourself off from noticing anything you identify with, down to “debunking” ideas that you know to be more or less true, from personal experience.

I don’t mean seeing someone as all bad or all good. Just letting your knee jerk emotional responses rule how much good or bad you’re willing to admit to yourself that you’re seeing at any given time.

Right now I’m reading stuff that should infuriate me but I can’t get mad or even address the issues because of the pivotal role in self-understanding the rest of my reading gives me.

I think parts of tumblr encourage this line of thinking, too. “You said one ~problematic~ thing five months ago, now I can’t even stand your cute kitten pictures.”

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