The anxiety-driven ordering of the world into a simplified, coherent system.
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rationalization
The anxiety-driven ordering of the world into a simplified, coherent system.
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Jiang defines anxiety-driven rationalization as an OCD-like attempt to order the physical world in order to reduce confusion.
Money standardizes plural perspectives into one shared symbol, then reshapes reality according to that symbol.
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"Okay? All you had to do was believe in the church, and you were fine. But then, what happens if you get rid of..."
"The word we use is rationalize. They're trying to rationalize the world around them in order to reduce your anxiety. Okay? All right? Does..."
"And only a few, the elect, will be saved. Only these people will be allowed to go to heaven. Everyone else will be condemned..."
"That's the second issue. The third issue is the idea of double predestination, which says that if you do not truly believe in God,..."
"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know...."
"They were different. These are different bottles of wine, but they didn't know which one was better. Okay? Then what the experimenters did was..."
"then once the standardization happens it reshapes reality into a rational order okay does that make sense all right okay so let's go back..."
"...are wealthy. Again, I, this is my problem where I make rationalizations because I'm moving too fast, I'm oversimplifying, and often I'm working from..."
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