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Arendt’s taxonomy is useful for classifying emotions. Labor/domestic emotions: pain, bliss, joy, fear, compassion Maker/agora emotions: satisfaction, frustration, righteousness, happiness, sadness Action/polis emotions: exhilaration, terror, anger, vengefulness, poignancy
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Aesthetic and competitive emotions live on the edge between making and action. Artists and traders are almost-complete humans. Edge of being of homo faber. Not yet prepared to appear in public and be recognized as human and part of history, but willing to appear by proxy.
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Trying to get at the long-term emotional toll of domestic cozy, the cost of having a mind bound within ‘narrow domestic walls’ as Tagore called it.
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This is high-modernist idealism, but it gets at something deep. I’d like to see a cyberpunk/hacker sensibility postmodern-pragmatic GenX version of this poem. A $5 challenge.
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I am trying hard to figure out the motivation(s) for self-limited emotional range. Some of it is simple aversion to feeling “bad” but some is complex - like thinking anger is distasteful, sadness reveals weakness, etc
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I'm not sure I get this. Is the point that people are afraid to work on something difficult, try something ambitious because they're scared they'll fail? ie issue is fear of failure (or being mocked along the way) NOT belief that they perhaps can't do it?
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