Posts by Kate Young3

Jason Gonzalez7 said:That's really interesting; I haven't come across this historical perspective before. Thanks. If you have any reading suggestions along these lines, please let me know...

But what happens when that autonomy clashes with state sovereignty?

I don't find anything wrong with that in a general sense either; I'm just using the term "ideology" here pejoratively, referring to a widespread and uncritically accepted dominant paradigm...

Yeah, consensus as an epistemological trend and the kind of relativism that shapes public opinion by claiming objectivity doesn't exist—it’s most obvious when you see someone leaving comments under an article in The New York Times.

But what's even more interesting is the phenomenon of denying the value of specific actions, events, or opinions. It's just this constant "everything is equally valid" mindset.

Real value? It’s an inside job. People think they can judge it from the outside just by looking at the surface, but that’s total nonsense. When something truly explodes—I mean way, way beyond the status quo—it sets a whole new gold standard. Sure, people might be too slow to catch on, and it might take ten, twenty, even thirty years for the world to actually wrap its head around it, but the value was always there. What you're talking about here is just people trying to force their own arbitrary ideas of "value" onto a group where everyone is basically hovering around the same mediocre baseline. It's all just noise—people bickering in their little bubbles, trying to prove who's a bit sharper or a bit more important than the next guy, when in reality, they’re all essentially the same. It's just a bunch of folks fighting for scraps in a tiny pond. Look, you can have all the god-given talent in the world and work yourself into the ground, but reaching a state of true, fundamental transformation is incredibly hard. Like, ridiculously hard. And until that massive, core shift actually happens—that internal metamorphosis—you aren't getting any real, substantial recognition. Real value only starts being measured once the transformation is complete from the inside out.

I honestly think she’s just weaponizing that rage to get her way. Seriously—dealing with someone who pulls those massive, totally unhinged temper tantrums is exhausting, it literally drains the life out of you. If she can pull this off every single day, then let’s be real: she knows exactly what she’s doing and she’s got it down to a science. My advice? Just let her rage. Don't walk on eggshells, don't baby her, and don't go running to fix things—just let her deal with the consequences herself. Stop reacting to it entirely. That's the only way she'll realize her little outbursts aren't getting her anything, and maybe—just maybe—she'll stop using them as a tool. By coddling her and hovering around her every time she flips out, you guys are basically just fueling the fire.

Imagination is just reality, only without the color.
Imagination is for losers—reality is where the real men play.
Cowards and kids hide out in their little fantasy worlds, while grown men live in the real world and use imagination as nothing more than a tool to navigate it.
That Macan guy lives in a dream world, whereas Picasso actually lived in reality. Macan uses his imagination just so he doesn't have to admit he isn't Picasso. If he actually lived in the real world, he'd have to face that. I can't stand those kinds of autists.