There is a thick line, not a fine line, between sensuality and obscenity. It is not something you trip over and land on the other side. It requires an agenda and substantial effort.
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Tag: Culture & Society
Seasoning the truth
Most people despise the uncooked truth and its messengers. Complete frauds are a turn-off too. People who know how to season the truth just right, with a pinch of “positivity” here and “negativity” there, make out the best on the social scene.
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The status game
“Only people suffering from [an] inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.” ~ Osho
Really? How does one assume their superiority without judging others as inferior? If we declare that someone is superior, then this assumes that others are inferior. You can’t have one without the other, right? Who is labeling others as having an inferiority complex? The one who calls himself superior?
Okay, I will cut Osho some slack here. Most of us humans want to think we are really good at something, maybe even better than others at that something. And I’m sure that Osho is a really intelligent guy with pearls of wisdom to offer humanity, but anyone implying their superiority seems rather egotistical to me. I’m not saying that Osho is doing this, but the quote bugs me.
Back to invisible
We’ve gone from the “many” being seen and heard for the first time, to being even less visible than before, against the huge mass of smart phones and competing voices in cyberspace. The online experience has moved us between both extremes in just twenty years time.
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Shades of therapy
Following a decade of failed relationships and hostile confrontations, you begin wondering if something is wrong with you, or whether everyone you choose to associate with has a collective mental health issue. So, you go to a shrink – referred to you on Reddit – who blankets you with his, her, or their personal countertransference issues, while trying to determine whether your portrayal of the real you, or what you thought was the real you, is authentic or a subterfuge serving to hide some rather unsavory aspects of an “unconscious” real you, otherwise known as the shadow.
Notes from David 