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Cause vs effect
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Be at cause (you influence everything) first when acting as it is motivating
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Be at effect (the situation influenced) first when considering an anomaly
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Archetypal stories
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Cultures can only interact to the extent of the similarities of their cultures
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Archetypes must be what our culture considers to be the ideal way of behaving
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Split-brain problem
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Internal inconsistency - thinking one thing, saying another; causes:
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Hemisphere differences
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Sub-personalities
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We pursue all ideals, just in different orders, for the circumstances we perceive
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Is a battle we all face, the more chaos we take on, the more struggles with this we will have
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Dreaming is also the way we rectify this, as well as expression/creativity
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Mid-life crisis could occur when this was pushed away, and the internal battle turned into a war - the Scar and Simba on the top of pride rock - the fight can no longer be ignored, as the whole kingdom will fall, so the fight must now occur, and a victor must come or a treaty must happen
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You have to be willing to burn, to have the courage to grow (phoenix rebirth, forest fire)
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Hell is somewhere you go, because you recognise your moral failures
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Phoenix’s perspective of its rebirth, it must have been terrified the first time, but the more it did it, the more it got the courage to continue to have humility, and courage, to grow and rebirth
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Ideas are real
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Give a hallucinogenic to someone, or to a schizophrenic, and ideas are as real as anything else
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From a brain chemistry level, ideas are just as real as anything else
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Perhaps this is the value of archetypes and meta-narratives, to our conceptions as humans, they are just as real as anything else
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I wonder which movies has explored this
- In the matrix, if you die in the matrix, you die in real life
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Harry potter
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Harry had a touch of evil in him, but also good, he knew when to break the rules
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Other characters who were good all the time, were punished
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Other characters who were bad all the time, were punished
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Since there are snakes, it is a good idea to learn how to talk with them
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People are afraid of being infected by dangerous ideas
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Children are raised to believe that the world is a benevolent place
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The cost of ambition
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Americans are highly ambitious
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Ambition can also delude
- Says you can always better, and may miss out on settling on good
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Comparing yourself to the best instead of your prior self
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Marriage
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Does ambition screw women over more than men?
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Women sexual archetypes
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Fine and dandy
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Taming men
- Able to use the dangerous types of the male monsters to achieve their bidding
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Female monster(s)?
- The social manipulation of others?
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Lincoln movie / la dolce vita movie
- Example where the woman could not tame the man
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Islamophobia / insults (insulting one’s character) / insolence (not saluting an army general)
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Appeal to sensitivities
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Cost of not having insults
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Can become the fascist you fear as you never learn about your own problems
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People who lack the skill to express their ideas in a sensitive way would not be able to express their ideas if less sensitive expressions were not allowed
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Exposing yourself to insults might make you more able to handle ideas that you find “insulting”
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SJWs and agency
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Disparity is due to oppression rather than agency
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Their ideologies allow them to escape the complexity of nuance, and they really dislike it when anomalies occur, as it the destruction of the categories - so instead of adjusting, they double down on their categorisation - the “systematic/institutionalized” ism is worse than we ever thought!
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