Learning to tell a good story is great. The problem with living in accordance to a story though is that all stories end. Your life must be the only story you live in. If you choose anything else, you die before your time.
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This central point is your very own point of view when you’re not surpressing it in an attempt to climb some other mountain to get a better view of things. You already have the best view of things for yourself.
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How can you tell which voice is yours and which voices are “installed”? “You” don’t speak just like a company like Amazon or Apple doesn’t speak. You have a spokesperson like the CEO or the founder but the thing in of itself can never do anything except just “be”.
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Most CEOs and leaders “are” well intentioned. They simply can’t understand why people are unhappy. They’re too removed from the more common reality. (Their reality is just as valid though)
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We choose to put on a pedestal people who say “let them eat cake” because they’re removed from out reality. We wanted it because we wanted an ideal to strive for.
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Blaming some leader figure or some group in power for being disconnected from reality is like being angry and sad that Iron Man doesn’t exist in real life. They are purposefully disconnected because that’s how we keep ideals pure.
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We bolster them by sacrificing and keeping silent about how we really feel. We support their illusions and then complain that they live in an illusion.
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We support the bolstering of grand illusions because we ourselves need our little illusions. Our sacrifices and our pain make that illusion into a reality, at least for a little while. When the pain fades, we need to cut ourselves again.
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