5 tweets · December 2021 · 51 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
in my ontology, "part of you is working against your self-interest" is in some sense nearly impossible, and any appearance of such is due to confusing a part for the self one part may be at cross-purposes with another part, but no part wants bad things on its own terms.
so if you shift identity from {part that's afraid it'll lose to the apparent saboteur}, up to the whole of your being including the parts of you you don't understand, then it becomes: - I want all of these wants to get cared for - my current strategies are mutually destructive
"mutually destructive" is different from "against my self interest" (above tweets edited from chats with a friend)
on the flipside though, some parts are Self-undermining, in the sense that they try to escape detection by jamming the radar of the larger selfing function. they need to undermine the overall self in order to operate with their current strategy.