I think I may have Dunning-Kruger anxiety syndrome.
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I know a lot of Vajrayana practitioners with this symptom. The culture of collectively coerced humility is highly infectious
This is probably a ‘shadow’ aspect in my worldview. I can detect a subtle dissonance in my system, one I’m still chewing on. I don’t think I understand the issue of what actual humility is versus all the weird ‘humble’ signalling, esp. wrt: pragmatic communication vs social ease
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> but I guess in a non-political/non-state context I tend to think people should be left to do their own thing. It’s relatively harmless. Not that you were saying otherwise. I am pondering out loud.
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I appreciate your ponderances. Yes, being honest and courteous seems much more natural. I suppose part of my own discomfort around this issue is that my natural mode of speech is overly formal, idiosyncratic, generally open and often emphatic. Has been since I was young. >
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> I have seen people react to the humility egregore when they first encounter Vajrayana, by being rude and argumentative for its own sake. That’s just the other side of the same coin. It’s a distasteful to experience overt preference falsification,>
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Yes, navigating icky content-free humblitude, is part of the Vajrayana skill set, unfortunately!
@doc_togden coined the word “humile” for vacuous virtue-signalling obsequious humility. I think just being honest and courteous is a good stance. >Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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