Comments on: Politics, Ethics, and Mental Widgets

By: Hijacking “tradition” and “values” | Urocyon's Meanderings

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:21:25 +0000

[…] darkly amused at some assumptions about where my politics are coming from (much less some of the widgetry that gets assumed to be part of this). I’m not somehow “overcoming” my […]

By: “They are not comparable religions.” | Urocyon's Meanderings

“They are not comparable religions.” | Urocyon's Meanderings — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:41:58 +0000

[…] looking for something Robert K. Thomas wrote about a tendency toward reification driving ideology/mental widgetry. (And some interesting observations about the English language maybe helping drive the reification. […]

By: Eirwyn

Eirwyn — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:15:56 +0000

I feel like I’m one of those people who needs to rely on mental widgets at least some of the time because I’m so ‘disconnected’ and I can’t seem to help it. But at the same time they cause me a lot of pain and confusion sometimes. I’ve had experiences where something someone says about X-ism sounds “right”, and then the opposing argument sounds “right” too. Sometimes, I feel completely alienated from the social justice scene because I lack some essential quality- empathy? Naturalness? Compassion?- that I feel everybody else must have.

By: well that was a bad night | Fragments and Ramblings

well that was a bad night | Fragments and Ramblings — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:41:35 +0000

[…] I guess I should permanently add this to the list of overly-dramatic widget-obsessed shitty activist circles (along with the entirety of queer activism :|). Eco World Content […]

By: Self-determination is a fucking joke and widgetry harms real people | A world that loved monsters

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:01:37 +0000

[…] could be described as against psychiatry – what I have a problem with is the anti-psychiatry widget set of “all social, no biological, drugs are universally […]

By: [post deleted] | A world that loved monsters

[post deleted] | A world that loved monsters — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:25:42 +0000

[…] Politics, Ethics, and Mental Widgets (I guess I could be described as against psychiatry, what I have a problem with is the anti-psychiatry widget set) […]

By: Bad post that ran away from me about how queer politics are annoying | Fragments and Ramblings

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:39:56 +0000

[…] feel like it’s too overdramatic and hyper-intellectual (well, more overfocused on widget-based morality […]

By: Impossibilism, meet unnaturalism | In defense of anagorism

Impossibilism, meet unnaturalism | In defense of anagorism — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:11:28 +0000

[…] a deliberate effort to do what does not come naturally. Therefore, I announce another component mental widget to add to my worldview-in-progress: unnaturalism. So far, the list of mental widgets reads as […]

By: oddly, I rather relate to this « A world that loved monsters

oddly, I rather relate to this « A world that loved monsters — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:21:39 +0000

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By: When widgetry and identity politics consign people to living hell. « Ballastexistenz

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:44:47 +0000

[…] the whole structure of such communities) ruin real people’s lives. And so does the use of widget-based morality — something I’ve planned to write more about why it works that way but haven’t […]