Unhindered By Talent

Music is so good, I can't believe there people in this world who want to be in music subcultures without listening to music

Never ask a white queer person what they think of Muslims

It is wild when you start doing any research at all into the efficacy of different psychotherapeutic modalities and like 90% of the studies say: "CBT is by far the most practiced and widely available form of therapy and it essentially does nothing". But its cheap and easy and fits society's perception of what therapy is for so it just keeps getting touted as an effective intervention.

Also kind of crazy that like CBT is studied WAY more than any other therapy modality, by a huge margin, and almost all the studies on its efficacy are like: "CBT is about as effective as just talking about your problems with someone who listens and is empathetic, and pretty much all of the positive benefits of CBT can be attributed to having a dedicated person to talk to". And yet the conclusion is still: "CBT is the best and we should be giving it to everybody for everything!!"

Like, it's so clearly a self-perpetuating system? CBT is one of the most common and widely available forms of therapy because its cheap and easy and requires very little training to administer and also neatly aligns with the goals and values of neoliberal society -> CBT is widely studied because it is the most commonly available form of therapy for people to access, and thus it is easier to study because there is a large pool of practitioners/clients to draw from -> studies of CBT are not adequately compared to studies of other forms of therapy (even other forms of talk therapy) because there aren't enough studies/data on other modalities to compare to -> studies of CBT claim that its an effective modality because its more effective than doing literally nothing, and comparison to other modalities is lacking -> studies claiming the effectiveness of CBT are used to justify administering more CBT to more people, creating a larger available pool of practitioners/patients to study, and on and on and on.

I talk about it a fair amount but i really, really do not fuck with this whole thing where everyone is trying to pretend they're 14 years old again by reviving the worst parts of recession-era fashion and music and media and internet culture and acting like it's somehow a revolutionary act of self-love to regress to the most conservative period in this millennium. It comes in lockstep with the return of the casual "retard," which I find really interesting as well, and the general shattering of progressive coalitions, with the broader trend appearing to be further isolation and insularity and focusing chiefly on this self-soothing impulse above most other things. But most of all I think these are heads of a hydra which either sits with or whose body itself is the fact that people are being made so incredibly fragile and incapable of tolerating disagreement or discomfort, needing to find justifications to act like they are, in fact, 14 years old again, and can be for the rest of their lives. I sorta think social media is doing it, the ability and at times compulsion to control and filter every piece of information that you interact with. And I think it leads to this impulse to smash things that threaten the bubble, leads to hostility, erodes the ability to reconcile even petty differences. Like somebody disliking your cartoon, so you call them fat and retarded.

Being an anarchist is finding other anarchist extremely annoying for having slightly different beliefs

i think its fine to have limited tastes in media if you understand your limitations. like i wont shame someone if they only watch cartoons because thats their choice but i also dont think you can go making hot takes about the horror genre if the scariest thing youve watched this decade was the owl house finale. that seems ill advised.

White people be like yeah the amazing digital circus got me into stevie wonder