(1) the Strangeness of Being Strange - The Small Bow
our minds are where we keep our social security numbers, our childhood fears, and our essential selves. It’s where I personally store lines from reality shows long out of production, what a business acquaintance’s sons wore to school on their first day of school, the address of my nemesis’s house and what they paid for it, and the job title of my h
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... See moreOur humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. We rummage through the chaos of our inner worlds, through our multitude of selves, to discover what we are, what we wish to be, and our authentic relationship with the world. This proces
It is good to be weird. It is good to be eccentric. It is good to be separate from the crowd. The philosopher John Stuart Mill thought it was almost a civic duty to be eccentric, to break the tyranny of conformity and custom. But even if we don’t feel outwardly eccentric, we all have eccentric parts. Thoughts that crop up on the peripheries of our
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