The world makes it easy for you to believe in your own specialness, but incredibly hard for you to truly discover your own ordinariness. A side effect of specialization under modernity is that everybody gets fractionally distilled from birth to "special" by age 21 or so.
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If it's "people are mostly the same in most aspects and modes of being most of the time," see Hari Seldon's work... Exploring that as a way of self-actualizing could be useful tho I disagree that most people aren't already aware tbh. Us gifted kids were messed up in this way.
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That’s closer to what I’m getting st and I’ve written a few essays on the psychohistory idea actually Though for the individual level I prefer the life-log books maintained by Death in Pratchett books as an allegory for ordinariness
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