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obsessing about seeking power, thinking you'll only be happy if you have more power, being needy and desperate about it, is not good but bending over backwards to renounce power, and to make a big show of how power *itself* is "intrinsically bad", is also not good

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what's good then? being honest with yourself about the amount of power you do actually have, and striving to use it to the best of your ability to achieve the best possible results you can, for yourself, for those around you, and if you like: for society, for God, for posterity

most people are so swept up one way or another, repressed, intoxicated, obsessed, resentful, etc, that any person who is able to think calmly and act honestly, will find their power levels rising almost naturally as a consequence of moving gently-yet-resolutely through the world

over the last decade or two, (some would say the last half century or longer, idk), we hear a lot about the problem of excess – mankind is too hard, too tyrannical, too sadistic, too manipulative, too addicted

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SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Jun 8, 2021

the thing I really like about the KWML archetypes is how they break it down into the failure modes. Too much yin or too much yang, too soft or too hard, too needy or too detached

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but the opposite problems are also problems! one can be too soft, too weak, too masochistic, too depressed, too much in denial. and interestingly both of these polar opposites tend to oscillate. the tyrant and the weakling are the same person, oscillating

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SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Sep 29, 2021

this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary

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some people need to be more gentle, some people need to be more resolute. some need more yin, some need more yang. if you're honest with yourself, you know what you need. ppl often know. a lot of the yelling & arguing in the commons is a distraction

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