“...you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along [such that] if he abuses you, it becomes disturbed and confused, do you feel no shame at that?”pic.twitter.com/hoZdiVMVAN
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Likewise for being 'taught' or 'trained' if those terms have connotations of deferring unpersuaded.
Mm, it’s not so much “deferring,” just having a noticeable pang of doubt that’s much greater than I’d have with a typical person, one that would gnaw at me until I’d give the issue enough time or mental space to find a resolution for the point of disagreement
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Pangs are bad. At best, whatever can be achieved with pangs could be achieved better without.
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To my mind, the problem is that people involve themselves in all sorts of structures where they become beholden to people they DON’T respect & who aren’t good checks on their ideas, and become persuadable when they shouldn’t be because their interests get entangled
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I’m emotionally beholden to people I love or respect in a way that some philosophers (certainly Stoics) would say prevents me from fully being my own “master.” This prob does leave more room for anxiety, but is also a normal social animal thing & a check on potentially bad ideas
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Seems to imply that one's masters/teachers/trainers aren't normal social animals; can't love or respect; their job is to inflict anxiety…
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