When we discover a framework that looks at (social) reality from a...
Pep@peptalksblog
48 views
Oct 12, 2025
~2 min read
Advertisement
1
When we discover a framework that looks at (social) reality from a new perspective—especially one that reveals dynamics we were previously blind to—it can feel like we’re finally seeing what’s really going on underneath.
Ironically, this makes us more blind:
Ironically, this makes us more blind:
2
Everything is a status game.
Everything is power dynamics.
Everything is attachment styles.
Everything is the unfolding of karma.
Everything is energy or sacred sexuality.
Everything is driven by survival and procreation.
These thoughts are tempting to believe because:
Everything is power dynamics.
Everything is attachment styles.
Everything is the unfolding of karma.
Everything is energy or sacred sexuality.
Everything is driven by survival and procreation.
These thoughts are tempting to believe because:
3
1) Each of these perspectives reveal truths the others miss.
2) Each of them contain distortions which can only be recognized by the others.
3) The idea of “having it all figured out” helps us feel safe & in control within most of those perspectives—which is why it’s so useful.
2) Each of them contain distortions which can only be recognized by the others.
3) The idea of “having it all figured out” helps us feel safe & in control within most of those perspectives—which is why it’s so useful.
4
When I let my right brain tumble down the rabbit hole of any topic, it almost always brings me back to the same thought I stumbled on last time—but had somehow forgotten:
5
Everything is every thing.
If that’s true, then it makes sense that when we look through the lens of any one thing, it feels like everything is that thing.
But that’s only because it’s the thing we chose to look through.
What if in reality, every thing is everything?
If that’s true, then it makes sense that when we look through the lens of any one thing, it feels like everything is that thing.
But that’s only because it’s the thing we chose to look through.
What if in reality, every thing is everything?
6
...but of course, this is just another perspective to look at everything through.
Some of it false, all of it true.
Some of it false, all of it true.
7
Every theoretical framework is a distorting lens.
It helps you see certain aspects of reality better by highlighting, exagerrating, concretizing, abstracting, warping, blinding, zooming and all that jazz.
So which one is best to look through?
x.com/peptalksblog/s…
It helps you see certain aspects of reality better by highlighting, exagerrating, concretizing, abstracting, warping, blinding, zooming and all that jazz.
So which one is best to look through?
x.com/peptalksblog/s…
8
...that depends entirely on the context.
x.com/peptalksblog/s…
x.com/peptalksblog/s…
9
E.g. in some context, a mystical lens is hindering the human.
In others, a rational one is.
Have a toolbox of lenses, wear them at different occasions, and if the situation calls for it, flip through a bunch of different ones to get a nuanced picture.
x.com/taijitu_sees/s…
In others, a rational one is.
Have a toolbox of lenses, wear them at different occasions, and if the situation calls for it, flip through a bunch of different ones to get a nuanced picture.
x.com/taijitu_sees/s…