## Core Concept PTSD typically begins not with suffering or vulnerability but with the encounter with malevolence — witnessing someone actively wishing and working to cause harm. That experience shatters a person's working model of the world more deeply than misfortune does, because it reveals a category (intentional evil) the naive mind had no slot for. ## Why It Matters Recovery is not achieved by restoring the old, innocent worldview. It requires building an explicit, articulated philosophy of evil so the mind stops cycling recursively through "how could this happen?" The cure for the wound is the loss of naivety, not the restoration of safety. ## Cross-Domain - **Clinical psychology**: trauma treatment reframed as worldview reconstruction, not symptom suppression. - **Security / threat modeling**: defenders who cannot conceptualize an adversary's intent remain structurally exposed. - **Leadership**: naivety about bad-faith actors is a recurring organizational failure mode. --- *Source: [[Embrace Your Mistakes and Keep Moving Forward]] — Jordan Peterson lecture*