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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      The purpose of saying that "I" have "my" idea isn't always strictly out of vanity nor is it purely a useful linguistic pointer. It's b/c "source" is never as simple as the description of "source"https://workwithsource.com/what-is-source/source-and-initiative/ …

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      Take the phrase "I am large, I contain multitudes" and consider that "I" here can refer to anything. Contradictions within the "I" are interesting pointers to *new* concepts that have yet to be named. Without a name, the paradoxical concept is just "one of so and so's ideas"

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      A specific example: If "I" feels both pain and pleasure at a situation, you might be tempted to say that "I" is being inconsistent. But with a term like schadenfreude, the paradox resolves. Accepting one who exhibits schadenfreude is the first step to naming schadenfreude.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      Each individual is a unique lens that is capable of seeing things that others cannot. Culture is like a common denominator lens that allows individuals to share information with minimal friction. People vary w/ deviation from this common denominator but everyone is unique.

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      Certain lenses have historically had more impact and are described in more detail. E.g. the perspective of a "Steve Jobs" has higher social status and impact than someone less famous. Without the living POV, there is no source.

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      You only have rough heuristics like "What would Steve do?" that can lead to ham fisted rules of thumb like "Be and asshole." or "Argue angrily with people about colors and fonts."

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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      This is why teaching is IMO an intrinsically egoic process that easily becomes preaching. The "I" tool is repeatedly used in order to ensure fidelity but creates a bag of contradictions that can only be resolve w/ "Just accept this as truth!"

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

      The act of teaching is the act of asking to be understood, which is often a cruel expectation of others when you don't even(can't) understand 'yourself'.

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

          It also offers a bridge to why "Doing" is the most enlightened form of knowledge. Knowledge in action is Being that allows the newness of whatever "I" is trying to express to be seen most clearly.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

          Without "Being" the "I" is channeled mostly through words and mostly misunderstood. "Man I hope this string of tokens from a bag of 26 letters really expresses all of who I really am."

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

          I dunno but maybe this is why artists, writers, musicians, etc... tend to feel depressed. The fidelity of their chosen method of self expression never fully articulates who they are b/c they are logically consistent systems that cannot express paradox.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

          In that sense, creatives sometimes never really "Be" because they're *trying* to "Be". The trying is the red flag that indicates wrongness since the being by definition requires 0 trying.

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 6 Dec 2020

          The *more* talented and proficient you are with a tool, the *more* easily it is to fall into the trap of trying to express the entirety of being through it. Perhaps this is why mathematicians often feel insane. Their tool allows *incredibly* detailed models of reality.

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