What Is

[fractured_sieg]

I'll be smiling, not because I have more reasons to smile than reasons not to smile....but because I want to be smiling. I want life to be good. I want to enjoy living. So I'll be smiling always.

Comments

[digitresden]

I don't think I can answer that. But from the looks of it, it's all rhetorical.

By the way, friend me, Zy. I spent ages tracking you down. D:

-Digi

[blackmac]

I fail to see the lesson learned from "A bucket."
Unless that lesson is "word things very carefully when asking Dan a question."

[fractured_sieg]

A lesson learned, and amusing quote gained.

[drkinfrno]

I think part of this hypocrisy is part of being human. We are not, by nature, indifferent - we will make judgements about ourselves and others, most of us feel it's admirable to try and improve people.

As to subversion - well, we are subversive in our own ways - I think the mistake is in seeing subversion as negative. Has anyone ever been perpetually honest?

[fractured_sieg]

This is one of my major problems, though. We must make judgements, and we must assume our judgements are correct, even while knowing that we can't always be right.

We can all often agree that honesty is best, and allowing that honesty does not mean you have to say every true thing you believe, all the time.....therefore we accept small lies for the smoothing of relations. If you believe that every interaction has an effect, then everything is manipulative in nature, intentional or not. If one intends their manipulations, and believes in their judgement that they are doing right, we are still left with the fact that others can judge their actions to be unacceptable.

[drkinfrno]

This is just as I meant - none of us are perfect. Since we inescapably make these judgements and subvert or use other means to do what we believe is right, the only defining characteristics end up being intent, and rate/level of success. Though this is an oversimplification, it is enough, I believe, for us to take well-intentioned action based on evidence and information as sound as we can use.

I understand what you mean about honesty, I more mean truthfulness. Honesty can still be ideal, but I would say again that I hardly believe there is an extant human being who is comopletely honest.