I love this piece. It is one of those rare messages that hits home for me. Now I have to wonder just how long this idea of humility through self-deprecation will take to become some new trend for those who are forever seeking to "become" this or that. Like the idea of living simply a few decades back, will this too, become fodder for som…
I love this piece. It is one of those rare messages that hits home for me. Now I have to wonder just how long this idea of humility through self-deprecation will take to become some new trend for those who are forever seeking to "become" this or that. Like the idea of living simply a few decades back, will this too, become fodder for some ambitious entrepreneur, marketer, or some such to grasp the idea and sell it back to us as something we cannot achieve on our own? Not without a book, or two, or three, maybe a magazine devoted to it, and some week long workshops on "becoming"?
It seems when ever something rare and insightful, arises from the daily fog of confusion that is our culture, it gets degraded and nullified by being brought down by commodification. I really would not like to see this happen, but somehow, in our urgent need to constantly be "perfect" or our inherent and secret need to be better than others (which is contradictory to this entire piece) we turn wisdom into fools gold.
Haha, you're probably right. Good notions do often end up exhausted and wrung out after they've been popularized. I have a feeling that the foolishness of this notion might allow it to elude and resist the forces of commodification. I hope so. But I do have a button and a sticker I'd like to sell you first ...
I love this piece. It is one of those rare messages that hits home for me. Now I have to wonder just how long this idea of humility through self-deprecation will take to become some new trend for those who are forever seeking to "become" this or that. Like the idea of living simply a few decades back, will this too, become fodder for some ambitious entrepreneur, marketer, or some such to grasp the idea and sell it back to us as something we cannot achieve on our own? Not without a book, or two, or three, maybe a magazine devoted to it, and some week long workshops on "becoming"?
It seems when ever something rare and insightful, arises from the daily fog of confusion that is our culture, it gets degraded and nullified by being brought down by commodification. I really would not like to see this happen, but somehow, in our urgent need to constantly be "perfect" or our inherent and secret need to be better than others (which is contradictory to this entire piece) we turn wisdom into fools gold.
Haha, you're probably right. Good notions do often end up exhausted and wrung out after they've been popularized. I have a feeling that the foolishness of this notion might allow it to elude and resist the forces of commodification. I hope so. But I do have a button and a sticker I'd like to sell you first ...
LOL, well sure! I think I will begin collecting them, you never know. . . they may end up being worth something someday!