E.g. intellectual bullying is the just the normal environment in intense research crucibles. It's not bullying not because the manner of communication is different it's that the manner of communication is formalized into a game.
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If I bring matches and a tent with me on a multi-day hike I am not corrupting the journey of my soul because I know where these tools stop and where my soul begins.
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If however I bring my laptop with me everyday, I bring something that has an incredibly new and complex kind of shadow.
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Some items have obvious shadows. If I bring an AK-47 and a combat knife with me walking downtown, it's a very scary shadow. At least they're obvious though. We know what kind of shadow it is like we know what a tiger or bear is.
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The shadow of our more complex pieces of technology are more octopus shaped. They feel alien. They feel powerful, yet inscrutable. Everywhere, yet centrally controlled as if a Benevolent Moloch were hiding in the shadows.
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They are shadows precisely because we do not know where they stop and where "we" begin. Their manipulation requires the contortion of our fingers and souls stretched in so many directions that we have no idea if we're losing parts of ourselves.
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Sometimes we may get the suspicion that part of us are being analyzed or dissected. Sometime we'll just pass it off as we would a caring doctor asking questions. Sometimes we feel more. Likes pieces of us are being stolen, atom by atom, without our knowing.
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When everything is free we stop asking about the price. We stop watching the shadow and lose our understanding of it. We stop caring about it and throw some drugs, money, or sex at it, telling it to shut up and go away and stop crying.
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Ironically, when the shadow is accepted as shadow instead of trying to be dispelled it no longer becomes shadow. By definition it cannot exist in the light but it can still be "owned", it can still have a "home". It's like putting out food for a stray cat. You know it's there.
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A sense of 'rightness' comes with the responsibility of caring for a shadow. Without rascality, there is too much emphasis on keeping things virtuous and pure (and lifeless/safe). The paranoid anxiety comes from not knowing what is eating all the food.
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