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Loving To Be Longing: Refusing the Fantasy of Perfect Community

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!!

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 2d

Loving To Be Longing: Refusing the Fantasy of Perfect Community

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social · 9d

Eucontamination Ch. 2

(because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄)

"Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."

Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social · 10d

Eucontamination Ch. 1

Very smart. Many words. Much dense. overheated-brain.gif

[Inserts "I'm joking" disclaimer before @billieiswriting.bsky.social throws me out for immediately complaining about her book. I will write some about the actual chapter.]

Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social · 10d

Eucontamination Intro

"Our liminal position left us in a near-permanent tension between us and them...
What we found most impactful in this space of being the other was our friendships and not our arguments...
This all began to make more sense once we started exploring the psychology of disgust..."

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Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social · 9d

All that to say, yeah. Disgust doesn't care about logic, and it is a powerful motivator. To deal with any of these messes we're in, we're going to have to undermine the disgust reaction, so thank you to Paul and Billie for jumping into the work.

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 9d

Likewise. Fee free to reach out with any questions or further thoughts!

Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you so much for diving in. So appreciate your thoughts and where’s the book takes you!

Integrity and the Fantasy of Wholeness

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 10d

Oh my gosh I love this so much!

Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social · 10d

Eucontamination Ch. 1

Very smart. Many words. Much dense. overheated-brain.gif

[Inserts "I'm joking" disclaimer before @billieiswriting.bsky.social throws me out for immediately complaining about her book. I will write some about the actual chapter.]

Marissa Earl @earleditorial.bsky.social · 10d

Eucontamination Intro

"Our liminal position left us in a near-permanent tension between us and them...
What we found most impactful in this space of being the other was our friendships and not our arguments...
This all began to make more sense once we started exploring the psychology of disgust..."

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 13d

For the record, the technical term for language spoken or written without regard for the truth, designed only to shape the listener's/reader's imagined reality in a particular way is "bullshit".

@paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 18d

If you wait to decide until the federal government calls the question, the temptation to justify making the "safe" decision will be overwhelming.
As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security.

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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 19d

"Authoritarianism treats critique not as feedback, but as infection."

This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 19d

Integrity and the Fantasy of Wholeness

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 26d

"Courage is the risk of fidelity when fantasy fails—the act that carries us further than fear would allow, without any guarantee that it will make us whole."

Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.

Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 26d

When Fantasy Fails: Anxiety, Desire, and the Shape of Courage

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks, Billie!!!!

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 26d

When Fantasy Fails: Anxiety, Desire, and the Shape of Courage

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 26d

In our book "Eucontamination" @paulhoard.bsky.social and I talk about the Disgust cycle [nausea—trigger—vomit—rationalize] which drives social expulsion at every level from stigma to ethnic cleansing and genocide.

These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27d

Rufo calling for mass arrests, Blake Masters & Cernovich calling for RICO against Dem & left funders, and a whole lot of everyday people begging for martial law, or, even worse, "gloves off." 99.9% of whom are just spouting off, but today if anything teaches us the damage that one .1% fool can do.

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 27d

Such a fun collaboration!

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to be presenting with @billieiswriting.bsky.social, @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social, and @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social at Theology Beer Camp this October!

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Paul Hoard @paulhoard.bsky.social · 27d

Oh wow! Thank you so much!!!