While not a smoking gun, only cats who are VERY comfortable and confident in their living spaces sleep like that. Those are very vulnerable poses (belly completely exposed, would be much more difficult to jump up and run if attacked). Typically a positive sign that a cat is well loved and cared for. Kind of refreshing to see considering it’s unfortunately rare around here.
Though the phenomenon of young adults of both sexes going out of their way to avoid becoming actualized adults seems to have sharply increased in the last decade and a half.
People raised on safety are entering an unsafe world and there's a growing movement (pushed from the top as well as from below) to try to hide from that by regressing to childhood, a time when people are insulated from the dangers of the world. People want to feel safe, so they watch Disney films and play with Legos to recapture that feeling. Or, indeed, they play sick. For some, there was no greater feeling of love and security than when a parent is comforting and protecting a sick child, and munchies choose that aspect of childhood to zero in on.
An aspect that pisses me off about this is also because it’s so (sorry to borrow an SJW term) privileged. If someone is regressing back into childhood to avoid the realities of both adulthood and our world today, that generally means their childhood had enough safety to derive comfort from and was probably a pretty good childhood. People who had legitimately shit childhoods are far less likely to connect the idea of childhood with safety because for them, it wasn’t safe.
So many of our lolcows (munchies, ebeggars, trannies) had great or even wonderful childhoods, often middle class and above. And yet many of these immature adults try to rewrite history and act like they had terrible childhoods full of abuse. Just a few off the top of my head that are guilty of this include Andi, Vicki, Destin, Mems, SarahJean, Jude, Allison Tennyson, pretty much any young woman mentioned on KF that claims DID, and a boatload of trannies but in reality they’re liars who actually had far better than average childhoods free of any major or even minor problems. And when farmers start to dig, it often turns out that they still have family support in the background, making their lifestyle possible, that they’re trying to hide. It’s to the point that when I see someone online alleging an abusive childhood, I typically assume they’re lying until proven true.
A person who had a legitimately bad childhood often had to grow up too soon and are also far less likely to have the option of skipping out on adult responsibilities in part due to not having family that is willing or able to support them. Even J, as dysfunctional and immature as she is, has to work and at least make an attempt at adult living. Yet so many of our tonedeaf lolcow losers like to larp as deeply traumatized and aggrieved when the reality is the exact opposite. It’s not enough to just be immature and larp as a child, they have to invent some victim complex sob story as an excuse as well for maximum attention and asspats. I’d at least have a bit of grudging respect if they were willing to admit they just don’t want to grow up cuz a lot of aspects of adult life often sucks.
Is there seriously no way to get the Wakefield/WeWork/Bryan Johnson/Theranos type narcissists completely out of the medical profession, or at least find a way to limit them to surgical assistants only?
It's just that they're all identical and so easy to spot? That Texas brain guy, that Italian throat guy, Snippy Shibby, it's the same article every time with names changed.
Yeah yeah this type of lunatic exists in every field, but come on, keeping them out of medicine should be a priority over anything else. I'd even rather have them as bankers than cutting up kids as they try to force their fantasy world into literal science.
Unfortunately, having psychos as surgeons is a feature, not a bug. You have to be more than a little kookoo to be able to filet a person open and go digging around. The god complex overrides the innate part of the human brain that’s screaming to not cut a person open.
The trick is for the medical field to find surgeons who are just the right amount of psycho. Too much and you get the Dr Deaths (great podcast, highly recommend), our munchie surgeons, and SRS butchers.
Dr. Sandmann,
