luka

Well-known member
but there are culmimating moment and peaks where it all comes together and in the aftermath idiocy is the only way to go. galling. humiliating.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
It seems like once the expectation of errorlessness is disrupted, errors are rendered benign. But in my case its not so crisp a threshold. There are relapses and reversions, albeit on timescales exponentially finer than the example you gave.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
It may be that the errors will persist, but will make less of an impact and can be met with an embrace, an occasion to refine oneself.
 

luka

Well-known member
with the proviso that refine yourself and similar language partake of the current neolib conception of self as a work in progress and needing to be perpetually improved (eg by doing a mba)
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Here is a other critical point where you may agree with me.

I don't believe in looking up to other humans.

Where and when a role model is needed, project some hypothetical and more advanced version of yourself, but in as dispensable and pragmatic a way as possible. Thats my current tactic anyway.

I think there is something to learn from every human, some having been more graced, as it were, than others. But to model oneself after other humans, as that meme implies to me, is a mistake. Its looking outside for what has been inside the whole time.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Looking up to other humans, to me, constitutes a tacit contract of redundancy, a commitment to do what has already been done, and less purely as it would only be a replication.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I envision a community of singular beings who inform and draw inspiration from one another, but who at the end of the day aim their own way.
 

luka

Well-known member
tempermentally i dont. but on a pragmatic level there have been humans ive known that manifested this or that quality i envied and i modelled it and basically 'stole it' and made it mine.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Fine to learn from people and model components of you after those of them, but if you see what I think you see, then you should also see that they aren't between you and it.
 
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