[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) on x 43.2K followers Created: 2025-07-24 13:43:02 UTC People who aren't from sick, dark-sided, broken families cannot conceive of what it's like to be from such a family. It's beyond their comprehension. The entire psychological architecture is different. The guy from a decent, upstanding, functional family thinks: "It's important to have fun, work hard, and just generally enjoy life; there are problems in the world but nothing really apocalyptic.." Subjects they consider to be "heavy" are generally.... not very heavy. These people are not urgently anguished or yearnful for "something better," and are mostly very well-adjusted and optimistic (even if they think they aren't). Conversely, the guy from a twisted, crumbling, insane family has a penchant for extremism. If he becomes religious, he thinks very seriously about topics like demonic possession and asceticism far more than the choir and the Church supper... If he's interested in politics they are liable to be framed as apocalypse struggles for some kind of utopia, whether it is left or right wing... he is willing to adopt extreme lifestyle changes toward the end of attaining anything that produces the security of mind he never felt as a child. If he does anything, he is liable to do it to excess. The well-adjusted types find him hard to understand, or even untoward -- and he finds the well-adjusted ones make him nervous, or seem shallow. In a sense, these differences are even more important than "class" because they appear to transcend differences of wealth, income, and property. These patterns hold at basically all income levels. "Dysfunctional family people" understand one another on a deep level regardless of whether their family was on welfare or has a net worth in the hundred millions; and vice versa. I suspect "the family question" is of primary importance; differences in family background really seem to have a profound and often unnoticed impact in the social sphere, far greater than simple "class" ever does in the old-school, Marxian sense of the word. I say this because I am from a very dark, almost Faulkner-esque family, and others from similar families "get" what I think and do, regardless of education or income. The ones who think I am crazy, constantly warn, curse, or chastise me, etc -- they seem overwhelmingly to be from good, upstanding families.  XXXXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1948378391436001466)
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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick on x 43.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-24 13:43:02 UTC
People who aren't from sick, dark-sided, broken families cannot conceive of what it's like to be from such a family. It's beyond their comprehension.
The entire psychological architecture is different.
The guy from a decent, upstanding, functional family thinks: "It's important to have fun, work hard, and just generally enjoy life; there are problems in the world but nothing really apocalyptic.." Subjects they consider to be "heavy" are generally.... not very heavy. These people are not urgently anguished or yearnful for "something better," and are mostly very well-adjusted and optimistic (even if they think they aren't).
Conversely, the guy from a twisted, crumbling, insane family has a penchant for extremism. If he becomes religious, he thinks very seriously about topics like demonic possession and asceticism far more than the choir and the Church supper... If he's interested in politics they are liable to be framed as apocalypse struggles for some kind of utopia, whether it is left or right wing... he is willing to adopt extreme lifestyle changes toward the end of attaining anything that produces the security of mind he never felt as a child. If he does anything, he is liable to do it to excess. The well-adjusted types find him hard to understand, or even untoward -- and he finds the well-adjusted ones make him nervous, or seem shallow.
In a sense, these differences are even more important than "class" because they appear to transcend differences of wealth, income, and property. These patterns hold at basically all income levels. "Dysfunctional family people" understand one another on a deep level regardless of whether their family was on welfare or has a net worth in the hundred millions; and vice versa.
I suspect "the family question" is of primary importance; differences in family background really seem to have a profound and often unnoticed impact in the social sphere, far greater than simple "class" ever does in the old-school, Marxian sense of the word.
I say this because I am from a very dark, almost Faulkner-esque family, and others from similar families "get" what I think and do, regardless of education or income. The ones who think I am crazy, constantly warn, curse, or chastise me, etc -- they seem overwhelmingly to be from good, upstanding families.
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