I've come to see self-loathing and outward-facing resentment as just two strategies for shielding oneself from empowerment in a context where it is safer to be weak than to be strong.
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Further, it's impossible to play with the world with genuine curiosity and not be at great risk of becoming powerful. So that, too, must be squashed.
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The greatest gift any human being can give any other human being is a genuine, unwavering desire & commitment to see them become strong.
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One can impose arbitrary limits on one’s interests to avoid changing one’s situation too much. Reminds me of how early scholars tried to avoid creating too-powerful *universal* writing & number systems, or the unexpectedly far-reaching consequences of some theories.
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Who is doing the squashing tho?
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