What is interesting is that while mbti is a sign of alienation and self estrangement, this is met by forced humour and trivialisation.
We have met this response of forced humour and trivialisation in the response to feminism.
It is plain that the thought of our own alienation and self estrangement and is too much for us to bear, so instead of responding rationally, we respond viscerally with a sad forced humour and a vicious trivialisation.
But tragically, the forced humour is at our expense, and we are trivialising our own pain and suffering.
You know Mole, you're really one of the most enlightened people here, but the vast majority aren't ever going to listen except for those who have some glimmer of what you're talking about already.
Also, I'm not sure MBTI is the problem, per se, but American Internet culture, which can probably be traced back to 4Chan or Reddit. There's a huge collection of misogynistic, extreme right wing, so called libertarian, mostly pseudo intellectual people populating these sorts of forums. Unfortunately, this echo chamber, likely birthed when these emotionally crippled men were twelve year olds, who felt socially rejected, so turned to the then predominantly male early Internet culture.
When others began to catch on, they brought a polemic response of completely natural anger at these myopic views, which eventually became problematic in and of itself, because the other pole of radical feminists and mainstream liberals created too strong of an oppositional view to the emotional retardation they found on the world wide web...this reinforced the self absorbed opinions of the original crew, so that no one listened to anyone any more.
Furthermore, this is a reflection of American sensationalist journalism, and polemic politics, which bombards people in an already "hypnotized" passive state while watching television.
I mean, trust me, anyone who thinks that climate science is a matter of public opinion didn't get that stupid from MBTI alone.
I read somewhere that it was acknowledged, even in the beginning, that MBTI and Kersey met the needs of fractured Western people who thought in black and white stereotypes and caricatures - Jungs neurotics - instead of whole, centered human beings. ..which is why Jungian function theory is really the only theory which actually attempts to unite people to whole selves instead of fractured paper cut outs.
I think MBTI can be a stepping stone to self realization, but for others, it's yet another echo chamber of defensive, self congratulatatory narcissism, from which they derive false self worth from being a "superior" or "smarter" type, and those are often the same people who speak of feminism in completely contemptuous tones.
Donald Trump should be a glaring sign to you that this is an American cultural disease, and not just a personality theory issue, per se.
then why do you stick around here?
