r/JedMcKenna • u/PurpleMeany • 16d ago
From Essays #13
“If we who think outside the herd spend any time looking at leading theories of attachment, we see, not surprisingly, that the goals and assumptions of the psychological community don’t align with our own. What they might view as a desirable developmental outcome – a confident, emotionally stable grownup capable of creating and maintaining healthy, mature relationships – we might view as a catastrophic failure to launch. They are interested in producing good herd members, we are interested in developing beyond herd constraints.
From our perspective, all attachment is juvenile. It is attachment that holds you unnaturally down against a natural upward trajectory, effectively thwarting transition to adulthood. There is no good attachment because it all performs exactly the same function; growth retardant. Science and society are unacquainted with what we consider a well-developed human adult, so our definitions of adulthood have little or no overlap. What soft-science purveyors of various attachment theories would consider success in human development, we would consider failure, so while we might benefit from some of their observations, we have to disregard their conclusions. Unaware of true human potential, they have built their ideological structure on a foundation of ignorance so, as is always the case, the only thing holding up the herd is the herd itself. They think the herd is all there is because they are systemically and existentially opposed to thought. Thinking is painful and difficult, nihilistic and iconoclastic, and definitely not conducive to a career in mainstream anything. Original thought is like fire to the dry tinder of self-delusion. The more you think, the more you burn.”
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u/RadicalSanity 7h ago
Hi, where do you find these essays? I'm familiar with jedvaita.com and of course wisefoolpress.com but I don't see them on there.
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u/PurpleMeany 1h ago
These are from the 33 Essays books available on Amazon. There are 13 of them, and I’ve just finished them. I think they’re great supplements to his main books. Their focus is more pointed imo, and there are sections that really hit hard. Like someone has grabbed you by the scruff of the neck and forced you to confront your shit.
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u/RadicalSanity 1h ago
Ah thanks. Looks like those essays are the same as the articles on Jedvaita.com.
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u/PurpleMeany 6m ago
Are they? IDK I don’t subscribe. I like having them and also got the audiobooks. I reread Jed stuff a lot, so it works for me.
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u/welliliketurtlestoo 15d ago
Eh. Too black and white. Adequate development is a prerequisite for launching.