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it make sense how the stubbornness of hard-headed defiance can become a habit of being contrarian or holding on to your beliefs defensively when it would be better to revise them. one can also question how much of the energy spent, the anger and hostility expressed in lashing out against (well chosen or indiscriminate) opponents is really just projecting self-loathing or compensating for other lacks and insecurities. how much is it just feeding in into the rage feedback loop just to feel something, or something other than what they're avoiding to confront with themselves? in outrage/call-out/cancel culture all the evil things are personal traits outside oneself, personified in the enemy, everyone piles on either obvious horrible people or minor flaws of others instead of examining how it's all structural and the ways that they're themselves complicit, or if it's done it's performative guilt. whoever blames more zealously or shows more guilt has more approval in certain circles, and if their true motivation really is improving their way of life by finding better ways to deal with these issues, then they are self-sabotaging.