![]() ![]() I’ll confine myself to books: reflexivity traps are springing all across literature. There are plenty of reasons to think about the trap and its offshoots, which include performative allyship and self-protective irony. To the extent that this discourages further action, oblivion might be preferable. ![]() As the cracks in our systems become increasingly visible, the reflexivity trap casts self-awareness as a finish line, not a starting point. Mocking your emotions, or expressing doubt or shame about them, doesn’t negate those emotions castigating yourself for hypocrisy, cowardice, or racism won’t necessarily make you less hypocritical, cowardly, or racist. ![]() The problem with such signalling is that it rarely resolves the anxieties that seem to prompt it. This is the implicit, and sometimes explicit, idea that professing awareness of a fault absolves you of that fault-that lip service equals resistance. These self-conscious times have furnished us with a new fallacy. ![]()
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