Deadening (the opposite of radicalizing) things, continued. We can endeavor to avoid what we can identify.
Looking at a screen
Too much responsibility
Being given options when you don’t have a preference
Not relating to presented concerns
Being talked down to
Having nothing expected of you
Listening to people complain
Filling out a form, then being asked the same questions verbally
Unapproved edits
Bills->late payment notices
Sitting in a deep chair for a long time
Ill health and pain
Having people not take one’s concerns seriously
The material difference between the good and bad rendition of ideas (this can be radicalizing in some instances)
The shittiness and overseas manufacture of expensive stuff
The concept ‘TMI’, and by extension Swiffers and the like
Signs that tell you obvious things: “Push to operate door”
That pervasive feeling that rules are everywhere: ‘we’re probably not supposed to be here…’
Eating too much rich food
Feeling you aught to know already
Only one correct way to do a thing
An unmentionable difference between what’s said and what is
Images of opulence or despair, perhaps images altogether
Generalizations
Mental exhaustion
Commodified choices: ‘click to help’
Ridicule, shame, fear
False concern, excessive concern
Misinformation, received wisdom
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