[FRIAM] the cancellation arc

[Steve Smith]

On 9/16/21 10:30 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> There's a PTSD character in "Ministry for the Future" who is the sole
> survivor of a mass climate fatality.  He doesn't have much success
> using CBT to tame his triggers.

I read that character/aspect as CBT possibly keeping him from being
entirely genocidal/suicidal.  


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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:56 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com
> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>     <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>>
>
>
>     -- 
>     "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie."
>     ☤>$ uǝlƃ
>
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