#thought cabinet

[marxistlesbianist]

I don't think it's possible to overstate the degree to which every mass liberatory movement in the US has failed because of racism. Like there really cannot be functional working class unity until we figure out how to systematically liquidate all forms of white chauvinism in progressive organizations

[mothmanatl]

If Disco Elysium came out today they would immediately accuse the thought cabinet art of being AI. But no, a person did that, and that’s why it’s awesome

[basepairwobble]

THOUGHT GAINED: THE ONE FIXED POINT

You have no voice. When you speak, the words come out of you and they are heard by the people around you but you can't hear them yourself. There is simply no one there.

Who is the one who picks the options? Who decides what you say and what you do? Is your identity based on what you choose? How can it be when that is so random?

You have no idea who you are and what you like. Everything could be different. You could be a fascist, an ultraliberal, a communist, a moralist, you could change your opinion every sentence. You could be mean to everybody, you could be everybody's friend.

You're just an empty vessel that's filled by whatever content chance throws at you.

+1 Drama: hero with a thousand faces

-1 Composure: there is a crack in everything

BREAKTHROUGH IMMINENT:

No. There is one thing that doesn't change: You like Kim.

Yes, you could be mean to him. You could choose to ignore him or even call him slurs. But you would feel bad because you are so fond of him. You did not choose *that*. You could not change that even if you tried. Even if Kim didn't like you back, even if you were never to see him again - that would hurt because you care for him and you don't want to loose him.

It stays the same in every iteration. This is a feeling. It's *your* feeling.

Congratulations! You have taken the first step towards getting to know yourself.

+1 Inland Empire: that's how the light gets in

+1 Volition: sapere aude

[aliettali]

looks at you with my bigfucking eyes. like this

[honeydewdrops333]

The montana grass is long and swaying

Me and my father had walked long to find blood tracks

And I stare at the grey blue sky growing cold

In a few yards we will find a fattened doe, laying

Her eyes were glass and fragile

Blood dripped from her black and pale pink lips

Her thin limbs were long and now still

To think that I killed something so agile

I feel a rush of adrenaline, but in my feelings there is no guilt

My father stuffs her mouth with grass and I laugh

He yells at me for laughing but what else shall I do?

I do not laugh when her guts are spilt

On a night, in three years, I will think

I think of the doe, laying in the grass

and tears come to my eyes seeing her beauty

To know she died in just a blink

I wish for the doe to be fat on montana grass

and for the harsh winter to never come

and that she lays in warm summer and bleats

And I hope that day shall never pass

[ourwishesonstars]

Does anyone know where the "white mourning" thought in disco elysium comes from? Like the actual name of it! I thought it came from the french because we have a psychology concept called "deuil blanc" but I just realized it's not just mourning someone who isn't dead like I remembered, but mourning someone ahead of their death due to them slowly losing their mental capacities to a neurodegenerative condition. Which doesn't seem to fit the bill here! So, if anyone has a theory I would love to hear it <3

[txttletale]

For both cis and trans people, family, peers, and mass media provide models for appropriate gendered behaviour, beginning in early childhood and extending through the life course. Learning through enactive experience occurs as individuals engage in gendered behaviour, observe how others respond, and adjust their behaviour accordingly. Early-life punishment for gender nonconformity is often regarded as a characteristically trans experience. In reality, however, not only do cis people share similar enacted experiences, but successful discouragement from gender transgression constitutes much of the cisgender phenomenon.

— Noah Zazanis, Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context

[stackofsnakes]

Kim literally saying he spares Harry another 20 hour mind project means he's aware how Harry internalizes thoughts. He saw this poor man grapple with his own sexuality for 8 hours and chose to have no mercy on him when he finally asked.