“The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid – I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.”
— Tucker Carlson
Self-awareness is one of those high-level ideas that has something to do with everything but, because it’s so broad, it doesn’t grab our attention. Something like the horizon, which is essential to balance and orientation, is always there somewhere, and seems rarely worth noticing.
There are extremes of awareness we consider fearful, stern, or awesome. The frightening claustrophobia of being deprived of awareness, to be a vegetable. The stern warning to look both ways before crossing the street. Or the awesome prospect of enlightened, universal awareness. But drama aside, we don’t really care.
We’re overlooking a valuable topic. Awareness is not just a topic for stoned conversations, but an actual thing that we can pick up and move forward. Or, if not move forward, then it’s a sufficiently bright horizon that we can see it through the transparency of all our daily realities…
Over the Horizon
Self-Awareness is as Overlooked As the Air We Breath
Higher Standard
Reduction Can Be Absurd
Defensiveness, Dishonesty, and Arrogance
Empathy
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