[FRIAM] the slow red-pill

[Steve Smith]

The best mentors I have observed have been somewhat if not acutely
reluctant.   Even those who take on the role of teacher or workshop
leader often do so with a somewhat coy reluctance, and the result seems
often to be that their best acolytes are those who take from them what
they will from the niche the teacher had niggled out for themselves and
then move on.  An idealization of the Journeyman principle seems to
exist to *force* this kind of "moving on" by the acolyte from their
teacher(s) to find/create their own niche.

On 7/16/21 10:10 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
> Yes! Which brings me back to my confusion as to why anyone would *want* to recruit others into their own personal niche. I suppose, as kids, we might want to join some bandwagon in the hopes for *lifting* us to a region we can call our own. I think that's misguided. But I can see why someone would think that way.
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> At the salon on Tuesday, the bartender's kids were there, one selling lemonade out front and the other simply hanging out with mom, who was also there. After listening to us render our opinionated nonsense for an hour or so, I asked him if he had a provocative subject to raise. He persistently demurred, aggressively claiming he knew too little to pose any such issue. Luckily, his parents were there and knew which buttons to push to get him to render an opinion.
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> People who work to acquire followers, be mentors, acquire mentees, acolytes, "intellectual offspring", always seem to harbor some deeply ingrained inferiority complex. So not only do we have a responsibility to go off on solo safaris into private niches. But we have a responsibility to *push away* those who may, for whatever reason, try to follow us ... for their own good. Find your own niche! This one is mine. >8^D
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> On 7/16/21 8:15 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Glen wrote:
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>> < What rang a bell for me was this idea that I have of the meaning of life. Each of us (animals and plants) are here to explore regions of the "space" that no other individual is exploring. It is our purpose to do that. >
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>> I am inclined to `radicalize' that and say it is our responsibility.  Then political implications come into focus.  The fascists, among others, would say we should occupy the same subspace for stability.
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