Excellent points. CRT seems to directly contradict positive psychology and individual excellence. It undermines cooperation with peers by mind reading and assuming bad intent. It undermines self improvement by opposing individual responsibility. Normally, the easiest thing to control is our own behavior that influences our outcomes. We can work to replace this toxic ideology with a focus on excellence and positive psychology.
There's something deeply satisfying about seeing my perspective on this being summarized so efficiently by another on such a complex issue. Thanks Chad!
It seems designed to create fragility, and hence the downward spiral of increased administrative control, mandated learned helplessness, and dysfunctional dependency.
"Believe it or not, there are experts that will earnestly swear that the assumption that resilience and self-reliance are valuable traits is merely the product of toxic masculinity and white privilege"
Part of me thinks this is not possible. What sort lunatic thinks like this?
I've speculated that America is the one place in the world to mount a defense against globalist authoritarianism. Making our warriors victims trying to outdo each other in their weakness sounds like it benefits globalist control freaks, not America, or the warrior.
Unfortunately there are many in the field of behavioral health. The MO of the enemy is to take over institutions, then use that institutional influence to apply pressure to silence dissidents. There's also a culture amongst clinicians where there is a reticence to call out providers you might disagree with, for whatever reason. No one wants to open themselves up to attack, and strong arguments can be made that such vocal bickering can undermine the public trust in your respective profession. This is the main reason why I'm skeptical of professional organizations. The APA and AMA are examples of how toxic this influence can become towards promoting an unscientific deference to group think. I agree with your stance that America is where we can mount a defense, and I feel that if our efforts are unsuccessful, people like us are pretty fucked. Regarding MRT, the in depth materials for the Army course aren't published online, but they are constructed for the most part around the work U Penn's positive psychology center: https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/ There are other significant influences to MRT, but the resources on that site have a shitload of overlap. If you would be interested in a post that outlines the full scope of MRT (all of the competencies and the 16 skills that support them) I'd be happy to oblige so you can get a sense for it, then perhaps people could request articles on individual skills that they are interested in and I can provide my take/how I would teach them.
The woke have found the jugular of America, our livlihood. It is a kind of low grade but devastating terror, but of course that sort of terror is not what the Domestic Terrorism Act is about. Friends to the State, woke are the enemy of the people.
As per our convo on my site around food resilience, I am very curious about how the military views resilience.
Simple, not easy. There are those of us who do this, but it isn't ever without consequences. I think I do a good job demonstrating that I am a good faith actor and that I'm never trying to hurt anyone's feelings and I'm always trying to make the organization better. That said, one of the reasons I know that microaggressions is included in EO training is because I was in such a training, and I spoke out against the problem with it. I think I did so effectively and articulately, but nevertheless, at the end of the course it was noted on a peer review form that I'm not "racially sensitive". If the individual that had that impression had been in the majority, and had cause to make my life difficult (say if I had a grating, disagreeable personality), this dynamic could have resulted in an EO complaint and ended my career. I put doing my duty before my career, but this is not the norm in the organization as far as I can tell, and it just be that it never was except for under certain historical circumstances.
I do understand, which is why I always speak up when presented with this kind of Orwellian bullshit. Thanks for the book recommendations, I'll check them out, but damn I have a lot of stuff on boil...
Excellent points. CRT seems to directly contradict positive psychology and individual excellence. It undermines cooperation with peers by mind reading and assuming bad intent. It undermines self improvement by opposing individual responsibility. Normally, the easiest thing to control is our own behavior that influences our outcomes. We can work to replace this toxic ideology with a focus on excellence and positive psychology.
There's something deeply satisfying about seeing my perspective on this being summarized so efficiently by another on such a complex issue. Thanks Chad!
It seems designed to create fragility, and hence the downward spiral of increased administrative control, mandated learned helplessness, and dysfunctional dependency.
"Believe it or not, there are experts that will earnestly swear that the assumption that resilience and self-reliance are valuable traits is merely the product of toxic masculinity and white privilege"
Part of me thinks this is not possible. What sort lunatic thinks like this?
I've speculated that America is the one place in the world to mount a defense against globalist authoritarianism. Making our warriors victims trying to outdo each other in their weakness sounds like it benefits globalist control freaks, not America, or the warrior.
Where is the best place to learn about MRT?
Unfortunately there are many in the field of behavioral health. The MO of the enemy is to take over institutions, then use that institutional influence to apply pressure to silence dissidents. There's also a culture amongst clinicians where there is a reticence to call out providers you might disagree with, for whatever reason. No one wants to open themselves up to attack, and strong arguments can be made that such vocal bickering can undermine the public trust in your respective profession. This is the main reason why I'm skeptical of professional organizations. The APA and AMA are examples of how toxic this influence can become towards promoting an unscientific deference to group think. I agree with your stance that America is where we can mount a defense, and I feel that if our efforts are unsuccessful, people like us are pretty fucked. Regarding MRT, the in depth materials for the Army course aren't published online, but they are constructed for the most part around the work U Penn's positive psychology center: https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/ There are other significant influences to MRT, but the resources on that site have a shitload of overlap. If you would be interested in a post that outlines the full scope of MRT (all of the competencies and the 16 skills that support them) I'd be happy to oblige so you can get a sense for it, then perhaps people could request articles on individual skills that they are interested in and I can provide my take/how I would teach them.
The woke have found the jugular of America, our livlihood. It is a kind of low grade but devastating terror, but of course that sort of terror is not what the Domestic Terrorism Act is about. Friends to the State, woke are the enemy of the people.
As per our convo on my site around food resilience, I am very curious about how the military views resilience.
Simple, not easy. There are those of us who do this, but it isn't ever without consequences. I think I do a good job demonstrating that I am a good faith actor and that I'm never trying to hurt anyone's feelings and I'm always trying to make the organization better. That said, one of the reasons I know that microaggressions is included in EO training is because I was in such a training, and I spoke out against the problem with it. I think I did so effectively and articulately, but nevertheless, at the end of the course it was noted on a peer review form that I'm not "racially sensitive". If the individual that had that impression had been in the majority, and had cause to make my life difficult (say if I had a grating, disagreeable personality), this dynamic could have resulted in an EO complaint and ended my career. I put doing my duty before my career, but this is not the norm in the organization as far as I can tell, and it just be that it never was except for under certain historical circumstances.
I do understand, which is why I always speak up when presented with this kind of Orwellian bullshit. Thanks for the book recommendations, I'll check them out, but damn I have a lot of stuff on boil...