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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I’m naturally horizontal but can play vertical for pay
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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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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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A human being should be able to set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Heinlein
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