You DO want to be liked. You said you didn’t but you do. You were said: be kind be friendly be polite be useful! be grateful be pleasant be agreeable be helpful …or people won’t LIKE YOU and you were said: be cool be pretty be funny be successful be respectable be rich be …
Tag: Society
Caught Between: EXPLORATION vs REPUTATION
Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration. Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually. Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative. Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy. Fixation with result ruins …
Part Of Something
part of something greater part of something lesser always part of something which is not something else part of something is still parting still not whole alone or in the group still separated, always separated not until we fully comprehend the gravity of the problem of separation it’s pervasive …
Reputation Deters You From Being Wrong
Reputation deters you from being wrong. You are now avert to making mistakes – so that you protect your reputation. But when you’re unwilling to be wrong — not only do you prevent yourself from learning — you also begin the movement of delusion. Eventually even the truths you built your reputation on become corrupted. …
Stealing Ideas
I will gladly steal the brilliant insights of greater then me and post them/ tweet them/ write a fucking book about them …as my own — because thats how little I care about looking good. Every idea known to men shall be repeated infinitely many times. You can’t really steal ideas. It’s like …
Don’t Sell Yourself
I found myself wondering if he was being disingenuous or… just selling. And then I realised it meant the same thing. It’s often the same thing You sell your stuff to someone, you sell yourself to others… Before you know it you lose track of which part of you is for sale and which …
Agree With No One
To walk alone is to agree with no one. Even when you agree with someone. Wise can never truly agree with someone. For someone else’s truth can never be his own. Complete rebellion is pure aggression – without ANY aggression. The TRUTH is the single most contentious issue in the world. In …
Honesty / Meanness
Honesty can appear as meanness but meanness can never pass up as honesty – as some would like to believe. Is it integrity, valiant shielding of the truth — or is he just a mean person? Insecure person? Ambitious person? Angry person? If truth can’t defend itself then who are you to defend …
Broken Men Can’t Fix The World
To one who knew too much suffering — it’s only natural for him to bring more suffering. You call it revenge or you call it justice — it’s just revenge. For every blustering “hero of justice” there’s some kid that’s been bullied, some young man who has been mistreated. Alas broken men can’t …
College is Not Predicated On Learning
College is not predicated on learning, self-betterment, or even signalling. College is predicated on comfort and indolence. Students get the comfort of going “the right way”. Society gets the comfort of schooling “the right experts”. Employers get the comfort of hiring “the right people”. All based on the construct we comfortably espoused. …when the one …