e.g. with bi-polar depression you can “borrow” from the future by projecting a heroic image to motivate you. if that pops, you can project an even more heroic redemption arc. this creates cycles of booms and busts.
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using a credit card to pay back a credit card is actually a eureka moment where you discover a hack for infinite money for credit cards this is “lol dumb” bc of cultural wisdom but for many other domains this eureka false-insight is still accepted as genuine
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if the borrowed psychic energy reaches a critical mass where it can no longer be maintained, then the image “pops” into a full blown depression rather than a recession
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this is similar to when interest payments exceed your income to the point so that principal can no longer be paid. it’s a sudden black hole singularity realization that you are never leaving the hole.
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another false eureka is the new colleague going “this new shiny thing will fix ALL the current problems promote me to manager tech lead plz”
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it’s all the same. it’s using the footure as a cum dumpster to realize the present self’s image of “Mighty Me” imagination is a powerful thing. but it was never designed to be load bearing.
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