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My take away from this article is simply raise your standards of people. Esteem should not be so fickle, it should mean something. Our culture has a very short
by McDoku 12y ago
My take away from this article is simply raise your standards of people. Esteem should not be so fickle, it should mean something.
Our culture has a very short attention spans and we exalt the wrong people. It creates a weird tension. Being a bad actor is an equal opportunity field and the doubt this creates grows until reasonable people are swallowed.
We have no willingness to forgive and this puritanism has in the end soiled us.
- pjc50 12y agoWhat do you mean by "exalt the wrong people"? People like weev?
- McDoku 12y agoA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. -- Marcus Aurelius
- mkr-hn 12y agoThat sounds bleak.
- McDoku 12y agoNot really. Ambition is like a bottle for your consciousness. It is the container. As your ambitions expands so does your mind. If your ambition is to troll someone, that is your maximum value. I think if you look deeply many will realize that this is not the value they want. I believe that they can dream of something greater then to harass someone online. If anything it is reminder to avoid being trivial. Ambition leads action. This cycle is who you are. It is beautiful self awareness.
- mkr-hn 12y agoI think we're talking about different kinds of ambition.
- McDoku 12y agoThis is what I mean by ambition. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambition http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambition
- mkr-hn 12y agoThis comes off as very condescending.
- McDoku 12y agoIt is not. There is an association with ambitious and grandiose in general language at times. I think it is related to whole 'the meek shall inherent earth' way of thinking. Which is a whole other debate if we get into the gospels of Matthew, Luke and Q issue. Which if you follow the logic of the statement to Matthew 5:3 it related more to an understanding of poverty and conduct. Ironically very much in line with something Marcus Aurelius would say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:5 So I get the confusion, because I used to make the same error.
- McDoku 12y agoMy dear beautiful downvoters did you disagree or not understand?
- McDoku 12y agoOption three. Irrational emotional rejection :-)