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only people with personality disorders hate introspection, the rest of us find it uncomfortable but often forced on us by the "outside" when we make a mess

That is so completely and diametrically opposed to anything approximating my worldview. Christ, I can't even imagine not making use of instrospection. It's certainly painful at times but it's much more rewarding in the long term.

No wonder these people are impossible to have a coherent conversation with.

Introspection has such an interesting history in philosophy. Plato's whole Form scheme is somehow dependent on it. John Calvin has one of my favorite takes in the first few chapters of his institutes where introspection inherintly forces us to look outward and then returns toward introspection. Here's the first part of CHAPTER 1. "Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other. For, in the first place, no man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone."

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Wow, he said that? Telling.

Yeah it really explains it doesn't it?

Cherry picking Zizek will lead to the same contextual failures as cherry picking Nietzsche.

What a beautiful harmony

I think it is more complicated than "look inwards" VS "look outwards" Often times Christians are told to focus less on themselves and more on Christ. Since our evil originates from within us.