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RE: "As He Demurs" (poem/article) >>> Toxic Masculinity ... or Ideological Hyperbole?
You are a chance taker love it! Steem on and speak your mind.
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You are a chance taker love it! Steem on and speak your mind.
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@rebeccabe,
So are people who jump out of planes without a parachute. :-)
Poets hyperbolize. Hyperbole is the essence of art. Art is inspirational.
But life is not poetry, it's prose. When we lose the ability to distinguish one (fantasy) from the other (reality) ... that's when the problems arise. And, it's why Plato counseled banning all the poets from ancient Athens. :-)
Here's what I'm trying to encourage in my Machiavellian way:
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_testing
It is a sign of our times when such ambition is considered "chance-taking."
Thanks for the support.
Quill
@quillfire Well, you can certainly hold your own.
Ambition. I did not see that coming ...lol
For clarification, I was referring to speaking your mind not ambition. Those two for me do not equate.
It is your post so congrats on speaking your mind ambition or not. :)
Remember to dance and have fun too. Life is a dance.
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@rebeccabe,
"Ambition" ... to get people to "reality-test" ... to subject their ideas and beliefs to peer review so as to distinguish facts from fancy. As human beings, we all have a huge problem with cognitive biases. This was Plato's great insight about setting up the Academy ... that "surviving the crucible of dissenting minds" yielded better ideas. Poor bugger, though ... Aristotle just had to be one of his students, and he redefined the word dissent.
That is an excellent piece of advice, and one I am apt to forget. Feel free to remind.
Quill
Reality testing
Reality testing is the psychotherapeutic function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are reflected on and evaluated by the observer. This process of distinguishing the internal world of thoughts and feelings from the external world is a technique commonly used in psychoanalysis and behavior therapy, and was originally devised by Sigmund Freud.