I can connect the dots. But it goes in several different directions. So I will wait for my tutor to give the answer to me, which, based on my calculation, soon. Otherwise I would risk answering it wrong and looking foolish. That was how I did mostly at school anyway.
There are no bad scripts that I can't work with.
Not that I'm confident with my ability to match a country with its capital. But people who so casually label someone/something as racist or sexist will never be able to learn either psychoanalysis or history. Because they make the first step in analysis wrong, assuming intentions instead of describing what happens.
When you talk about masochism, they call you sexist to think such a vile thing. But they don't know the reason masochism is more prevalent during times of war is because people have to romanticize sacrifice to deal with loss of loved ones. What they think is politeness and sense of justice is actually choosing comfort over understanding.
People who are crying that leaders have questionable personal characteristics will have another meltdown when they learn soldiers on battlefields don't go out killing with a heart full of love but in a psychotic state.
They should have done a better job at the focus and the angle. Really made it impossible to concentrate on the lesson. I learned almost nothing.
Now that you already know my other secret, it's time to share an interesting quote from someone I don't like:
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
Wait till tomorrow for better internet to catch up with the lesson that I missed. I'll use the rest of the day to think about the new piece that I think I found.
The funny thing about being paranoid is you would think trusting no one and preparing for people being out to get you all the time would make you safer. But statistically, paranoid guys and gals frequently fall for the most obvious and ridiculous scams, because their fear is not based in reality.
People without significant developmental issues will learn to know they can have aggression and hate someone without doing harm to them or that having those feelings would make them bad people. But paranoid come from the denial of aggression. That people can only be “kind” to each other.
In reality, disagreements happen every day. But since they can't accept aggression in themselves, they have to point the finger to the other person. Their paranoia comes from the need to stabilize their faulty emotional functioning. Not come from actual facts. That's why they frequently accuse normal people who disagree with them as narcissists. And actual narcissists who elevate and lift them up for personal gains as soulmates.
They mistake their splitting for intelligence. As splitting helps them come up with answers for everything and it takes time for the rest of us to verify information. So then their delusion comes off as confidence to the naked eye.
They also mistake their projection for social skills, as projection helps them to make quick decisions in social settings. And the rest of us learn to not assign intentions to random people, that's the skill you need to know someone more than superficially. That's why they can interact with thousands of people and look socially successful but their understanding of human is close to zero. You can't expect any real insights from them.
Fortunately, to spot paranoia, you don't need to read a lot of textbooks. You just need to be reasonably healthy.
Work twice as hard to make up for yesterday.
I'm getting good at making fried rice, and in all flavors imaginable.