1/ Right, so I said I'd expand on this, and I will because I consider it important. I tend to write these pithy holier-than-thou tweets, which you must forgive me for while I'm trying to fix it. Here goes.https://twitter.com/mistermircea/status/1009481299357249536 …
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10/ An ideal is appealing because it gives you the finished product without any of the effort : an end to hope for, an image to believe in, a version of reality other than the one dictated by your experience to dream about. Almost all sales is built on this principle.
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11/ Where an actual value is absent you will always find an ideal replacing it. So, where you see a lot of ideals (and ideologies) it is safe to assume a lack of refined personal values, or a surface-level awareness of what really constitutes them.
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12/ We learn from each other and help each other far more by expressing our personal values than by nodding our heads complacently to some boilerplate ideal that all it does is sound good but lacks the authenticity of human experience to back it.
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13/ The key is not to mistake ideals for values, because those who profit from selling you ideals are relying on this deception taking place: Chasing an ideal is easy, understanding and following your values is hard. Ideals give you an end; values give you the means.
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14/ The best thing you can do for your own psychological well-being and a meaningful life is to forget all the ideals that have been pushed on you by culture and focus on refining your own values; ultimately this is the only way to help yourself, and everybody else, too.
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15/ PS The only way to fulfill an ideal is to become an imitation, and those who imitate cannot create. The emptiness that this creates in a human being is unfathomable, which perpetuates the vicious cycle of trying to fulfill an ideal in the hopes that it can fill it.
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Just as the organizations you stated, we as individuals create and perpetuate ideals by using stories to justify, amplify, and modify the fictional ideals which we seek to be fulfilled by.
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