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I used to think limiting self-perceptions are mainly about beliefs. Putting yourself in a box made up of fixed mindset beliefs about yourself. Now I think the walls of the box represent emotional range. What you believe about yourself is a function of what you let yourself feel.
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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.
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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