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Tag: chaos

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    Media: insight & art vs. sugar & sex

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    As media and outlets multiply, there is a natural competition for attention—more bids for eyes on more content in more formats.
    Art, beauty, or insight will not win, but rather the more addictive traits, such as sugar, fat, sex, death, and revenge will.

    This is human (biological) nature. Bids for betterment are culturally instilled, and socially (propagandistically?) corrupted. As society devolves towards animalistic urges media frames as “living my best life” there is no applause or policing of delayed gratification… unless you surround yourself with an perversely twisted group: those who enjoy the torment of betterment and control their attention.

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    inferiority from grandiosity

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    Your inferiority complex is because of your grandiosity complex.

    The reason you feel bad is because you think everything should be so good, so perfect.

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    Entelechey: realization of potential

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    Aristotle says there is a core principle within that shapes outcomes into reality.

    The “entelechey” is a motivating force that organizes potential into actuality; that is, it directs potential into the real instead of mere theory or form.

    A fundamental seed, like a crystalline DNA, expresses its shape (ideas and form) and its will to expand into an organized realization (matter).

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    Control and Responsibility

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    This chained pair is inseparable.
    If we avoid responsibility, situations devolve into chaos, and if we claim control but do not delegate responsibility, negligent entropy ensues.
    Extreme ownership, either refusing responsibility or taking control, are possible, but at the extremes lies resentment.

    The question remains if a committed cadre can communally disperse responsibility while retaining control.

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    to de-frag the self is tyrannical

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    There exists within you an "economy of selves." However, let’s call it a community or a troupe, where each personality (or partition) with its concomitant desires proclaims its importance to running the whole self.
    In such a case, to remain entire the whole must sacrifice to save the fragment.

    Some parts of you must do things harmful to other parts, essentially triaging desires. The whole will always be sick (divided against itself) because of this.

    The difficulty of a singular self (or universality) to emerge, or to transcend to an ideal state, is the need to either rid or harmonize discord. Optimizing the self is radically tyrannical to the self.

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    open horizon

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    Openness is scary: agoraphobia sets in.

    Options are endless, uncontrolled chaos unravels: dreaming begins.

    Holding control and chaos simultaneously is a gift: a thrilling of danger as joy.

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    I’m just keeping it real

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    Our culture is filled with excuse phrases, often confusing bluntness with truth and rudeness with honesty. It is incredible how often "being real" is brutal and inconsiderate.
    "Being polite," or "nice" may appear to be a weakness or falsity, but it requires discipline and respect not found in "being real."

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    Freedom: trading order for chaos

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    To give up order for chaos is to escape.
    Our urge for freedom drives us from sanity (acceptance of normative order) towards psychopathy.
    If all actions have a purpose (a motivating goal or utility, even if subliminal) then the rewards of psychosis are a less constrained individualism.

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    Mexico or Canada?

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    You must choose: European progressive values and resultant taxes (social safety and education) or Wild West free market chaos, corruption, and cheap living (with lagging infrastructure and abundant labor).
    Check your political philosophy against the countries that embody it: is this really what you want?

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    finding your purpose is submission

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    Finding purpose so we can live a meaningful existence is a crutch. Life is already meaningful: we are looking for additional security.

    It is easier to glorify a singular principle (i.e., goodness, justice, God) and then submit to its precepts than to exist in an original state of chaos and confusion.

    This universal submission may be for the net good, but it is slavery to a social ideal.