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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Special doesn’t equal superior or positive. Just encouraging you to see yourself in a narrower category than “human” IS performing “special”. You’re more aware of “middle-aged woman” aspects of you than aspects you share with many more, like having 2 legs.
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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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You’re still focusing on “special = gifted” rather than merely “distinguishable”. Perhaps a clearer way to state my thesis would be: The world wires is to our own distinguishablity st the expense of our indistinguishability.
