Interesting essay. It strikes at the issue I find in a lot of discourse online. As a personal matter, it is best to "work through it" cause ain't nobody gonna save me. But that personal bootstrap-attitude doesn't disappear the existence of unjust structures that surround us and need to be fixed.
The libertarian right ignores the societal problems while the hyper angry left stews in their powerlessness while ignoring our personal agency of us as individuals to marginally improve our own lives.
I haven't read enough Haidt (and none of Lorde) to weigh in to the merits of your analysis of these two authors, but your framing helps crystalize why the silicon-bro-stoic crowd is so exceedingly obnoxious....to the point that I was pleasantly suprised when I finally got around to reading Seneca earlier this year. He's a helluva lot more likable than his modern day proponents.
Interesting essay. It strikes at the issue I find in a lot of discourse online. As a personal matter, it is best to "work through it" cause ain't nobody gonna save me. But that personal bootstrap-attitude doesn't disappear the existence of unjust structures that surround us and need to be fixed.
The libertarian right ignores the societal problems while the hyper angry left stews in their powerlessness while ignoring our personal agency of us as individuals to marginally improve our own lives.
I haven't read enough Haidt (and none of Lorde) to weigh in to the merits of your analysis of these two authors, but your framing helps crystalize why the silicon-bro-stoic crowd is so exceedingly obnoxious....to the point that I was pleasantly suprised when I finally got around to reading Seneca earlier this year. He's a helluva lot more likable than his modern day proponents.
Incisive!