Christina Buttons has been many things over her life, as her not-a-manifesto today lays out in detail. Overall the theme is that mental illness exists, but not as a chemical imbalance. My late father was big on the chemical-imbalance theory... probably because his mother, during my infancy, contracted Alzheimer's which absolutely is a physical brain-tissue problem.
Abby-Normal's brain, like Buttons' Asperger brain, will instead induce bad decisions. Their consequences will give to Abby a sad. Fatalism - the belief that you don't have agency - encourages bad decisions over good ("I couldn't help it!"). Koreans call that feeling, han. Fortuna is a demoness; Sura 53, in our canon, is correct to ban her cult. (The CounterJihadTM can quibble over the move to make G-d "al-Mané" instead.)
I do need to point out, with David Cole\Stein, that the Trump side of the American Right... ain't much better. Let's look at Miranda Devine yesterday: The J6 riot was not an insurrection but a protest that escalated into an out-of-control riot because then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was denied intelligence about potential threats that day
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Devine here concedes that many involved in "J6" were violent. They weren't all FEDS!. Those who weren't FEDS!, should have owned the internal peace not to engage in riot. Devine is denying that they had that agency. Call it, the han-defence.
Trump won anyway. I suppose a nonfatalistic citizenry wouldn't even ask for politicians to save them. And to be fair Buttons herself used to trust in politicians, from the other side.
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