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You surrender your self in exchange for your goals. With the right goals, that could be a worthy sacrifice. But of course it is a sacrifice. Imagine doing a cr
by ToValueFunfetti 1y ago
You surrender your self in exchange for your goals. With the right goals, that could be a worthy sacrifice. But of course it is a sacrifice.
Imagine doing a crossword while a voice whispers the correct letter to enter for each cell. You'd definitely finish it a lot faster and without making mistakes. Crossword answers are public knowledge, and people still work them out instead of looking them up. They don't just want to solve them; they want to solve them theirselves. That's what is lost here.
- kybernetikos 1y agoThis is associating the self with the thing that decides how best to achieve goals (the earring / the part of your brain that works out how to achieve a goal), while I'm saying that I think I would associate the self much more with the thing that decides what the goals are. > they don't just want to solve them; they want to solve them theirselves. That's what is lost here. I think in this story, the earring would not solve the crossword for you, if for some reason your goal was to solve the crossword yourself.