Haha sure they would look like that because of their believes and not because they don't have an Idea what assemblage de/re-territorialization and other stuff means without giving them multiple lectures explaining it to them. ^^

(Advice upcoming, if you are annoyed by strangers giving an advice just skip the message :)) Stroking your ego seems not the right way for me. Why should you do that? To feel more "normal"? Reflecting your believes may also ground you a little but with the benefit of learning where you had stupid images of yourself and not just making fun of you. Being just sarcastic can of cause solve a quite similar purpose but with the drawback that it may not last longer time it may bot give you the insights which may be useful in similar situations in the future. Try not to be stuck in a stupid circle where you perform the same pattern over and over again.

Whats that pill?

Some kinda progressive tribe which does not hit you in the face on the first tone. (But later it does ^^)

You are completely right. Sorry maybe my head was a little off...

It's the prequel so sure start there before you go on. But jucy spice trips come later so rather go on reading even if it's boring.

Who is that clown?

This whole page is quite informative. Thanks for sharing.

the doing something is at best going back to a 10:1?

That's your interpretation. How about taking everything back? Or just burning this shit down? The poem says nothing about it.

Definitely some psychological, and probably physical, abuse has been done using this character.

The thing is these traditions come from times where there was no such thing as an individual. Such stuff has a purpose and this is to form the thinking of children in a way to obey order and knowing the place in an hierarchical system. For sure psychological abuse happened (quite often since this figure scared the shit out of a lot of children) and for sure also physical abuse (but at least I haven't seen such; think this happens more often with the Krampus).

Me neither but that would explain the meme. I really thought even a lot of people here do not know Krampus when they do not have any connection to the region where its celebrated (southern southern germany & austria mainly). But in other parts there is also some equivalent called Knecht Ruprecht; he has a bat and a sack to put naughty children in and hit them. Oh yes Christianity (mixed with pagan) traditions are so charming.

But they also fade away in the recent years.

Lol, people know "Krampus"? He basically belongs to Nikolaus (some kind of Santa Claus) and punishes the naughty children. (Also hes not really [just] german) But yes we like to scare the shit out of our children; this seems like a sane way of dealing with people.

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-anarchy sounds like Marcuse.

No problem. Thank you for bringing up the initial question ^^ Think this is a central problem these days and (also in radical circles) often overlooked. So again - thanks.

I posted some more info in an reply on this message by the OP. (just fyi ^^)

In german there is https://www.radikale-therapie.de/ I tried to look up some english page but the first few hits where quite dissapointing. So if you are interested you have to do your own research; sorry.

Basically its a form of group therapy based on:

• Radical Psychiatry
• Transaktionsanalyse
• Co-Counseling

These forms of therapy are performed in a long-time group (1 year min) and do not have a leader or professional person guiding the group. The group starts with 2 weekends of training on which people from other groups come and teach the fundamentals of this therapy. After the first weekend the group is ready to perform its own weekly meetings. The meetings are organized in a way that every time 2 people prepare the meeting and perform the methods. This rotates and every week different people will be in the position to prepare the next meeting. This leads to the point that everyone is capable of sharing the knowledge and helping other groups.

The methods they use are based on the three mentioned abvoe but can be extended in various ways. Everyone can bring in other methods and try out if it fits to the group. E.g. body therapy is also very common.

This is basically RT. FORT is quite similar but women* only and MRT also but for men*. Also the content from every group can be very different.

In critical psychology there is something "similar" called "kollektive selbstverständigung" (https://selbstverstaendigung.de/was-ist-ksv/). With this they build groups to find out why people (they) behave in the way they do by reflecting their socio-economical standpoint and how society influences them. I can't explain it good in english since the wording is quite complex. The concept is based on critical psychology (Holzkamp) which is kinda an anti-authoritarian marxist psychology which was formed around 68.

Edit: I really like critical psychology; not for their real life methods (they often are just not there, lol) but for their view on life and how your psych is formed and how to act. Personal they gave me, just by reading the stuff, so much more ease in life but also conserved the anger on society; and the second point is often missing in classical psychology (I have the feeling it's that case at least).

Hope this is enough for now?

About the licensing and stuff:

Why not forming therapy groups? There are already "Programs" which can be adopted; e.g. FORT, MRT, RT (Radical Therapy). They live from untrained persons and also live from sharing the idea and training new people.

There are also other, quite similar, approaches but I can't give any english name for them and they are also often more or less "marxist" oriented. E.g. critical psychology but can't name a specific method there. Also don't know if the readings in english are good.

It did.

This sounds as it could work... Wait, this was a joke?

Will read that later.

But if that's the case: What's the new story then? I mean individualist primitivist anarchism isn't something new and this romantic view of pure survival is also a very old story.

But instead one has to determine for themselves "What's the implication of that".

And people do that? I rather have the feeling that people like to think about that without taking action. Sure you can not prevent climate collapse or steer society in any direction. But doing nothing - in a group or as individual - does not make things better for you or others.

As I said to me it passes just romantic pictures, but not the urge to discover the great unknown and measure the world; but the curiosity of the great nothing.

Can someone please explain why so many people like that book so much?

For me its summed up a little like:

• we are doomed
• only small groups will survive
• a lot of shit is coming

Yeah I can relate to quite some stuff but it feel too romantic for me. Somehow as a pre plot to "Dune". What's the implication of that. What's the political message?

I tried to like the book but found it quite unsatisfying.

PS: Sorry if I missed a lot of stuff; I read it some years ago. I just ask myself why there are so many memes about that book.

The context is important. When it's about personal stuff: Being right or wrong is unimportant as long as you feel comfortable with it. When it comes to social stuff, you can take the bigger context into account. Reflecting your standpoint in relation with society can give you little more clearness. Your standpoint and your "right" can be completely different to other ones "right" because your history is completely different.

In general it gives me a lot of self confidence and clearness to know why my standpoints or views differ from those of others. If somebody tells me I'm wrong I may confront them with things they don't see or just give a fuck without questioning myself. But that's not always possible to the full extend, in situations where this is not that clear I take this opportunity to reflect about it and include it in the bigger picture of myself for the next time.

Another thing which is quite important to me is being graceful to myself. As the others also said: You don't have to be always right. You are definitely not always wrong. It's just your view of the world and as long as you are okay with yourself that's very okay. If not it's - again - a starting point for reflection and reorganization; or at least could be if you take that opportunity.

Thinking dialectically is quite a help for me there. (even though quite some people don't want to hear that I guess ^^)

Is this some kind of US joke? A lot of restaurants here have vegan dishes.