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Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

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  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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This seems to be something pretty common among Czech authors in particular

Weird given how Soviet Communists raped their country in 1968...

but there was little acknowledgement about the kinds of things communism did right

Ah, the good old "Hitler got trains running on time" thing (which he didn't btw)

Kundera couldn't even recognize the happiness and beauty of the socialist May Day celebrations,

Ah yes, and we do not appreciate the brilliant whiteness of KKK hoods and the beauty of Nazi torch marches. Maybe I should rewatch The Birth of a Nation and Triumph of Will to get inspired.

The whole thing just reeks of sore loserdom: like we have here in the Old Confederacy

Like that, except when the Confederacy won and he's the slave. Sore loser indeed.

I'm not denying that the Czech communist state (and the Soviets) did horrible things,

It kinda looks like you do. Or at least you are denying Kundera the right to be horrified and disgusted by those horrible things.