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It's only a core life skill if you are in a society/class which puts you continually on the brink of the abyss. e.g. starting a company requires looking into t
by rhelz 2y ago
It's only a core life skill if you are in a society/class which puts you continually on the brink of the abyss.
e.g. starting a company requires looking into the abyss? Is dropping out of Harvard really staring into the abyss?
I suppose we'll never entirely get over our Puritan heritage, but we really shouldn't be romanticizing painful, traumatic experiences. Pain is your body's way (and the abyss is your brain's way) of telling you that are being damaged.
- ChadNauseam 2y agofrom the article: > It’s also common for people to avoid staring into the abyss about their relationship. Similarly to jobs, it’s a common observation that people stay in bad relationships for far too long, and I’d guess it’s often for similar reasons. I don't know if any way of reorganizing society would change this. And I don't think that any of it has been romanticized by this post.
- rhelz 2y agoAnybody who has actually looked into the abyss would not speak of it like this.
- black_13 2y ago[dead]
- polotics 2y agoStaring into the abyss, medic-school edition: Full tunnel vision, retinal rods reporting only peripheral darkness, overexcited cones showing that what remains of a central distant world is on fire. Something nearby is also probably really burning. Maybe people should learn some perspective and refrain from using grandiose words in their writing?