Incels are constantly told to "go to therapy," but why bother when our entire soyciety is permeated with its memes? You have probably already absorbed most of the messages that a therapist would give you through socialization and acculturalization via the school system and mass media. If it didn't help you there, it certainly won't here.
A good example is this song that regularly plays on country stations now:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsFb67fo7nE
The lyrics are filled with tropes from CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy).
And this includes the logical fallacies that are to be found within CBT. Consider in this regard the following two sets of lyrics:
The song denounces what psychologists call dichotomous thinking (or "thinking in black-and-white"), yet expresses a dichotomous viewpoint about how one should be "loving" instead of "hating" others. Indeed, the dichotomy of love/hate is the most basic example of black-and-white thinking that there is, the origin of which is to be found in young infants and their object relations towards their mothers. When used in adulthood like this, it is clearly reductionist beyond reason, rigidly lumping a plethora of behaviors into merely two categories.
This is just like how in CBT therapy, "dichotomous thinking" is called a cognitive distortion, even though the therapy itself engages in dichotomous thinking! The very notion of distinguishing "positive thoughts" from "negative thoughts," as CBT does, is dichotomous in essence. It's just that the therapy is obviously biased in favor of what it terms positive, and against what it terms negative (which are by no means objective labels, and it becomes a tautology to term things in this way).
Another set of lyrics worth mentioning are these:
The onus of social change is placed on the atomized individual, in a way that suits our neoliberal order, for it is bound to be ineffectual. Rather than rushing the US capitol as a group, for instance, you are told to individually "love somebody" and "maybe make a difference."
Which goes to show that the way in which country music is being corrupted by soy has to do with the individualistic orientation that the right-wing in America has always had. It sowed the seeds of its own destruction.
A good example is this song that regularly plays on country stations now:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsFb67fo7nE
The lyrics are filled with tropes from CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy).
And this includes the logical fallacies that are to be found within CBT. Consider in this regard the following two sets of lyrics:
The song denounces what psychologists call dichotomous thinking (or "thinking in black-and-white"), yet expresses a dichotomous viewpoint about how one should be "loving" instead of "hating" others. Indeed, the dichotomy of love/hate is the most basic example of black-and-white thinking that there is, the origin of which is to be found in young infants and their object relations towards their mothers. When used in adulthood like this, it is clearly reductionist beyond reason, rigidly lumping a plethora of behaviors into merely two categories.
This is just like how in CBT therapy, "dichotomous thinking" is called a cognitive distortion, even though the therapy itself engages in dichotomous thinking! The very notion of distinguishing "positive thoughts" from "negative thoughts," as CBT does, is dichotomous in essence. It's just that the therapy is obviously biased in favor of what it terms positive, and against what it terms negative (which are by no means objective labels, and it becomes a tautology to term things in this way).
Another set of lyrics worth mentioning are these:
The onus of social change is placed on the atomized individual, in a way that suits our neoliberal order, for it is bound to be ineffectual. Rather than rushing the US capitol as a group, for instance, you are told to individually "love somebody" and "maybe make a difference."
Which goes to show that the way in which country music is being corrupted by soy has to do with the individualistic orientation that the right-wing in America has always had. It sowed the seeds of its own destruction.
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