> *...you need to teach "critical feeling" to defeat groupfeel no less than critical thinking to fight groupthink.*
> 
> *― Eric Weinstein*

Over the course of a good education, we learn to subject our beliefs and judgements to critical scrutiny. When reflexive, errant thoughts arise within our minds, we know how to combat them within ourselves and bring them in line with reality. We call this process, this collection of corrective metacognitive tools, “critical thinking”.

But when feelings arise within us, we have been given no such toolkit, no similar standard by which to judge whether these feelings are in need of correction in the first place. At best (or, perhaps, at worst), we can apply often vague, sometimes contradictory religious prescriptions of which emotions are good, or bad, or evil. The precision with which we wield reason and logic may seem more taunting than inspiring, a nirvana beyond our reach.

There is a path to these elysian fields. When we recognize that our feelings
  are not in fact some representation of some "truer" self,
  but in fact are a kaleidoscope formed of naive, primal drives,
  we can tease apart each of these colors and,
  looking at them one by one, discern their purpose.
  Translated from flutters of the heart
  to context-specific goals,
  they become strategies no less amenable to inspection
  than any rational plan.

## The Path
1. <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/emotions-are-wrong'>When are emotions wrong?</InternalLink>
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/emotional-epistemology'>How can we investigate emotions?</InternalLink>
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/emotional-teleology'>What is the "purpose" of emotions?</InternalLink>
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/emotional-nature-and-nurture'>How do Nature and Nurture interact with emotions?</InternalLink>
2. <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/desire-is-wrong'>When is desire wrong?</InternalLink>
	- Compulsive Perception
3. <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/anger-is-wrong'>When is anger wrong?</InternalLink>
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/hate'>Resentment and Hate</InternalLink> 
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/mobs'>Mob Anger</InternalLink>
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/aggression'>The Three Kinds of Aggression</InternalLink>
4. <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/fear-is-wrong'>When is fear wrong?</InternalLink>
	- <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/threat-spirals'>Threat Spirals</InternalLink>
5. When is care wrong?
    - <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/cause-and-affect'>Cause and Affect</InternalLink>
7. <InternalLink to='/seq/critical-feeling/correcting-emotions'>Correcting Emotions</InternalLink>
    - emotional invalidation


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