Still angry since yesterday as I saw someone said people working in helping professions should take on a certain side of a certain current political issue because “we should always choose the side of life”.
I mean, people have bad political takes every day so I might have to learn to take it easy. What made me angry the most was how people associate a job someone does with how they should think. And that came from someone who studied Freud and stuff. Didn't you take notes when your teacher talked about False Self?
False Self is basically a manufactured identity to serve certain purposes. For some people, to gain affection or social advance. For others, for safety.
One example is job stereotypes. You know how they tell people in STEM shouldn't use their hearts and people in arts shouldn't use their brains? And stereotypes work because many people lack sense of self. And I wouldn't mind if they didn't also tell others people what to do out of their own narcissism. Damn it, I haven't read the articles and you tell me I have to stand against the machine!
See how you created the false self to genders and now you have to invent new categories so you can diversify the original false selves? How has that worked out so far?