Unbundling and rebundling identity along vertical/horizontal integration dimensions 🤔
Horizontal: freedom, trust, gamesmanship, rationality, risk, price
Vertical: happiness, loyalty, community, meaning, enchantment, value
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A viable public sphere requires a citizenry with primarily horizontally integrated identity
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Your non-dominant dimension is your unintegrated shadow. You *could* oscillate horizontal/vertical yin-yang to painfully achieve full integration.
Or you could kinda just leave it alone
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Self-actualization is kinda overrated. It’s basically a stunt, like memorizing pi to 1000 digits or learning 7 languages.
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Self-actualization is for insects
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Wanting to be self-actualized is the human equivalent of wanting to be an iPhone.
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Gamesmanship is such a good word. I should use it more. Both the word and the behavior.
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Damn I’m on to something here
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Don’t eat your shadow. There are many more creative and low-effort options.
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I like how enough people seem to keep up with my shitposting enough that completely obscure vaguetweets like this still get a few likes 🤣
Moral of the story: don’t break the shitstream
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ha I think I'm the other way around? I think? actually it depends, I tend to try and play the countermelody to whatever is the dominant melody in the group that I'm in
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Goo for my prickly friends
Prickles for my gooey friends
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