Walt Whitman on identity and the paradoxical conflict of change
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["Song of Myself," Walt Whitman]
We have a strong repulsion to being thought of as hypocrites. I think we take it too far sometimes.
Thoughts and insights on culture and human behavior, living blissfully at the intersection of rationality and irrationality (but mostly irrationality)
I sometimes wish we could freeze a person and examine - in a very comprehensive way - how any one person's thoughts and experiences have led them to see the world in the very specific way they perceive it. Why any one person is exactly where they are, making the decisions they believe they are making, when they could be in an infinite number of other places, thinking and deciding an infinite number of other things.
This site exists because I've come to believe that we learn something from everything we experience. It's not always big. It's not always what we expect it to be. We might think it's contrary to what we already know. Or believe. But it's always something. And it always has a greater impact on our choices and experiences than we ever realize.
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re: persistence of 'identity' online: "In 20 Years No One Will Be Qualified to Be President"
Another potential outcome is that we as a culture will learn to be more tolerant of what people do in their personal lives, especially as youth. Americans are plagued by an endearing notion of “Character”–that what we do in our personal lives speaks to our fitness for professional tasks. When complete lives are increasingly archived, we may need to step back from that ideal and let our leaders be human.
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