Wow! Well if I said well, you said it fantastically. grin
emoticon Yeah, the growing polarization is disturbing to me.
I've been fighting for what I consider "reasonable": Have you
political positions, have your stances, have your beliefs and
causes and things you fight for, WITHOUT requiring US/THEM
Marvel comics hero-villain victim-perpetrator outlook. In short,
diplomacy. Superman and Lex Luthor need to sit at a table and
have a chat with some coffee and snacks for a few hours and sort
this stuff out. = Well said. That's exactly why either/or
polarization happens. Boredom. People are bored and want a
purpose. Some people can't fight without having an absolute
enemy, the "or" to their "either", so yeah. Here. How about
this: You're wrong Luke, this is exciting and world changing. Go
sit in the corner and think about what you said. == I've been
mixed on this confidence angle. I tend to think of guilt leading
to a sense of obligation and confidence leading to purpose. Yet,
purpose *could be* the same thing as obligation. Maybe they just
sound different. I dunno. == I dunno. I don't get bored. What am
I doing right now? Talking about things that interest me. Not
bored. I don't get bored. Other people that get bored? Well,
they'll just have to start breaking things. == But: if you
weren't thinking of others nor legally held accountable, would
you remove the street branch anyway? Or leave it there? In
short, do you have a sense of, "It's just something that needs
to be done" or do you feel a pressure from the obligation? == My
standards are things being more or less orderly, without getting
anal about it. So I would remove the branch because it's in the
way. In the way of whom? Doesn't matter. It doesn't belong
there, so I'd move it if I'm capable. If I'm not, I'd get help
moving it out of the way. == Yeah. It's a want. "right thing to
do". Even in crowded NJ, I just "did what was the right thing to
do" just because it was the right thing to do. As a teenager,
I'd question "Why?" and say "Not Fair" but then I just did what
needed to be done. So it's also an obligation too, I just didn't
feel any pressure. It was just a civic duty kind of thing. == I
like being a good citizen. Always did. I liked going above and
beyond whether or not anybody told me to. It gave me a sense of
independence and freedom. Following my every urge and want
around is chaotic. I'm a little OCD so morals like, "leave the
place a little better than you found it" and stuff like that
suit my nature quite well. I grew up in a chaotic household.
School was chaotic. I ate my lunch at MY pace at school. My pace
was so disruptive to the normal lunchtime routine in elementary
school that they had me come down 10 minutes early and let me
stay 10 minutes late. So, ingrained? told to? I dunno. These
were just things that suited my nature and gave me independence
and a way to be different from other people around me. == Being
the only clear thinker in a room of chaotic people is far from
following orders. If I followed orders and let things get
ingrained in me, *I'd* be chaotic and running around like an
idiot like everybody else. ==
