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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

I am driven by my emotions.

"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."

"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".

aurelien2022.substack.com/p/an

@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel

Zelensky has just given a Ukrainian flag signed by soldiers as a gift for Kamala Harris and the US Congress, 21 Dec 2022 “The boys gave me our wonderful flag with their signatures written down on it to hand over,” Zelensky had told reporters traveling with him from Ukraine.
#disillusionment#disgust#power
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brandon

listen. i’m still always going to #advocate for #ai. the fact that these giant corporations are bastardizing something i love makes me sick. but it’s also. always been the #opensource communitt driving the progress forward. we can’t keep working on AI for a paycheck. we have to start working on it to save us. we’re all starting to see the reality of the idea that #money is just an idea, and putting it before your #feelings only works in the short run. even when the short run was millennia

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T. T. Perry

A Political Grammar of Feelings: Thinking the Political Through Sensitivity and Sentimentality
Brigitte Bargetz (2019) in Political Phenomenology, eds. T. Bedorf and S. Herrmann

"Framing sensitivity and sentimentality as a “political grammar of feelings,” this article suggests bringing into view two interrelated modalities of the political. "

taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi

ABSTRACT Western political theory and philosophy have long since neglected affect and feelings in politics. This disavowal is based on a predominantly liberal conception of politics that is associated with rationality, objectivity, interests, progress, and the public. This chapter interrogates such a narrow understanding of politics and engages instead with two specific feelings, namely sensitivity and sentimentality, for rethinking the political. Framing sensitivity and sentimentality as a “political grammar of feelings,” this article suggests bringing into view two interrelated modalities of the political. On the one hand, it considers political sensitivity to be a sensory political register and mode of sensation, perception, cognition, and agency which is called feeling politics. This mode allows to address power relations and social structures, of the present and the past, and how they are affectively inscribed in peoples’ bodies and everyday practices. This affective political mode, on the other hand, is distinguished from political sentimentality. This notion is about the articulation of power relations too, however, it refers to feelings as instruments and means of the political, which the article suggests calling a politics of feelings.
#Philosophy#Politics#Feelings
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donthatedontkill

I'm often at a loss for words for things happening inside my body. Physical things, emotional things. I wish I could express them to you but I've not figured out how. I feel hope and despair at once. I feel alienated and overwhelming compassion for people. The words I use juxtapose them but inside me they are one. What should I call these things?
(We can talk about physical stuff another time.)
@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic #feelings #mentalhealth #buddhism (?) #alexithymia (?)

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