kentaro Some people look at people who output all the time on the internet and say, “I don’t have that much person who craves the limelight. Some people say something like “I don’t have that much person who craves the limelight,” but it’s not true at all. If you are just doing it out of desire for approval, it won’t last. There is only continuity through habituation, desire for the production itself, and other things that are outside of you or that you put outside of yourself.

kentaro The question of what “maturity” means has been on my mind for a long time. I could never get into the Jun Eto style of talking, let alone simply internalizing the norms of society. Now I think it is about being able to deal with one’s externals, like continuing to do so.

kentaro Such concern for the self = the letting go of the self should save one from being consumed by personal sense = evolutionary constraints, desire = the desire of the other, The whole of such a thing may be called cultivation in the Goethean sense. Of course, there is a danger in doing so. But if we go that far, we are far away from self-expression.

I completely agree with you that the output does not last because of the need for approval.

relevance - Parable of the grumpy toddler who doesn’t get attention.


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