Meh. For the record, I didn’t even downvote you, though I can see why others did. Not that we’re here to judge you—but then we can’t be judging the “soccer moms” of the world either. All we can do is take their attitudes at a given for the moment, and perhaps start working on the hard problem of altering these, as part of our overall goal of making the world saner.
Again, it’s all well and good that you want to “give the finger to social standards”. So brave, much confidence. But you can only do that properly if you understand how the standards work in the first place, and why they’re what they are—otherwise, you’ll simply come across as your average foolish, angsty teen, who wants to reject the world’s hypocracy and set on his own path, but doesn’t get that this always involves paying a high price, and more often than not fails anyway due to his inexperience and poor understanding. Most people who naïvely set out to “achieve greatness” fail due to overconfidence. It’s the people that just have something to protect who can end up doing impressive things in the process, if only occasionally and almost by accident.
Meh. For the record, I didn’t even downvote you, though I can see why others did. Not that we’re here to judge you—but then we can’t be judging the “soccer moms” of the world either. All we can do is take their attitudes at a given for the moment, and perhaps start working on the hard problem of altering these, as part of our overall goal of making the world saner.
Again, it’s all well and good that you want to “give the finger to social standards”. So brave, much confidence. But you can only do that properly if you understand how the standards work in the first place, and why they’re what they are—otherwise, you’ll simply come across as your average foolish, angsty teen, who wants to reject the world’s hypocracy and set on his own path, but doesn’t get that this always involves paying a high price, and more often than not fails anyway due to his inexperience and poor understanding. Most people who naïvely set out to “achieve greatness” fail due to overconfidence. It’s the people that just have something to protect who can end up doing impressive things in the process, if only occasionally and almost by accident.