[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

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Thanks for linking the trigger warning article. There's only 1 thing in there I can't abide:

"At the college level, we don't believe the Holocaust, slavery, genocide, and other harrowing topics should come in two different versions: 'regular' and 'lite.'"

Every intellectualized treatment of fundamentally *somatic* things is the 'lite' version of it. Book learnin' is all 'lite' versions. This is made obvious by those ASPCA TV commercials that show clip after clip of abused and neglected animals, with some soft, pleading voice begging for you to send them money. 

We can go round and round with the behaviorists about how there is no such thing as the internal mind and whatnot. But the value of being *slowly* exposed to atrocity, starting with intellectualized 'lite' versions, is obvious. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), where you are given some teachable skills to manage catastrophizing and such, exploits the relationship between the 'lite' and the 'heavy' versions of any givenn subject. It works, at least temporarily, for both healthy people and those with PTSD.

I think the techniques of CBT should be taught early, like maybe 5th grade.

On 9/16/21 6:09 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> They also incidentally brought up recent research on trigger warnings, a crowd sourced clinical intervention for PTSD dating to the 1970's and a long time tough-guy bug-a-boo.  
> 
> https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work <https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work>


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