Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Now that we’re living in the world the wounded, incomplete people have made for us, and they run everything, I should write about them more specifically. I have often used this phrase “wounded, incomplete people” to describe them but I’ve not put anything in writing to say exactly what it is that I mean by that. The time has come.
We make stupid decisions when we’re wounded, or when we’re incomplete. Being wounded means a part of you has been taken away and you’re missing it. Being incomplete means you haven’t matured yet to the extent you can make good-quality decisions. They both mean your cookie is missing some dough but one means you’ve lost what you used to have, and the other means you never had it in the first place. This is a distinction that is practically meaningless most of the time, but in some contexts the distinction does have meaning.
Since we all have the potential to become wounded and incomplete, we would do well to try to avoid it. If you really want to avoid it, you have to pay some attention to how people get to be like this.
If you go into an experience trusting, and it turns sour and you change your behavior as a consequence, it could mean that you’ve been wounded. It could also mean you’re learning lessons you needed to learn. How do you tell the difference? It matters because one means you’re making worse decisions than before, and the other means you’re making better decisions than before. In the first scenario, you are joining the ranks of the wounded/incomplete; in the second scenario, you are extricating yourself from their ranks by way of valuable, albeit painful, experience. So this requires more study, not less. It matters.
You can’t use results to assess, because the blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. Sticking with a poor process that happens to generate a few isolated good results, is the road to ruination.
A lot of this necessary growth has to do with getting wounded. You lose the cookie dough before you build it back again. So how do you tell when the wound has closed and the growth has been achieved?
You look upon the lesson learned. And you have to be honest with yourself about it. It’s got to do with your level of certainty.
“I know he won’t do right by me, because he reminds me of whatever” — is the lesson “learned” by the wounded. They are not being wise although they feel like they are. They’re stereotyping. They’re paying forward their pain and misery.
“I do not know that he will do right by me” is the lesson learned by the learned. You see the difference? It’s very subtle. I do know he’ll screw me, versus, I don’t know that he won’t. The former is a stop, the latter is an opportunity. The former is what you say when you pick up your marbles and go home, because you’re still hurting and you’re not yet ready to share again. The latter is what you say when you’re tough because of your battle scars, and you can start making some logical decisions about how much trust to extend to a potential new friend. If you extend a little bit of trust, and it’s fulfilled, then you can extend a little bit more. You are not yet on this healing cycle, but you are ready to take your first lap. It is the difference between the negative and the positive.
This is why Biden/Harris supporters are acting angry, mean, petulant and vengeful, as if they lost, when they won. They voted that way because they were wounded, or incomplete. It’s not an accident, it’s a plan. The democrat party works long and hard to get people voting when they lack authorization to be in this country, when they’re convicted felons, when they’re angry/hurt/vengeful and feel like they want to get even with “corporations,” when they’re too young to vote, old enough to vote legally but not old enough to vote smartly — or don’t exist at all.
They are wounded…incomplete…people. They’re supposed to be flush with victory but they’re more angry and butt-hurt and hatey than they were before the election. Some of them have gotten hurt and lost some of their dough. Some of them never had it in the first place. But none of them are whole. If they were whole, they would be acting like winners, because whole people act like winners after they’ve won, and President Biden’s supporters don’t act that way.
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