Read this (ThreadReader version). Even though the author is a hard materialist/individualist, I think it's vitally important for the work I've been trying to do here for almost *checks watch* HOLY CRAP ALMOST TWO DECADES. I hope to formulate a proper response soon.
My mother's New Age perspective is more or less that whatever you believe is, by definition, true for you.
— go to the elephant site @rechelon@mastodon.social (@rechelon) May 23, 2023
...So she will howl at me and my sisters when we bring up wildly abusive things she's done, "Why are you choosing to believe that?!! What does it benefit you!?"
