Thought vs feeling re: ideals
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:35 pm
Are there concepts/practices/ideas you've discovered and been attracted to, which you've embraced intellectually long before your feelings caught up and got on board?
I think fake it til you make it is actually a pretty effective strategy in a lot of things. I have personally had it let me actually ‘make it’ in several contexts. Like I faked empathy until my pool of it could grow. It did grow but it’s certainly not infinite or huge, post-growth.Madrigal wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 2:12 amI think there is an element of 'fake it till you make it' in embracing most political ideologies, since there's usually a lot to align with them, and the personal sphere is often never aligned at all, kinda like the final frontier of political wokeness. I was never especially jealous but I was reading Simone de Beauvoir before I ever got into free love of the socialist variety, and it made intellectual sense to me. Of course it was kind of shocking to start putting it into practice, but those feelings fade. Anyway, I now prefer not to feel compersion at all, I feel more comfortable with the opposite of that.