Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Of Course

 Fascinating trend in American politics - the bigger the lies and the fake-ier credentials you concoct, the better your chances are of winning.


 

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4 comments:

Mark said...

There are plenty of people we know - non politicians - that are perceived as something they aren't.
A little finesse is called for to make it 'work' , but the world generally agrees to see us as how we want to be seen, not necessarily who we are. Our 'public persona' is a lifetime effort, conscious or not.

The downright fabrications and lies of guys like this are just bad blatant extreme examples.

My personal goal for the remainder of my life is to attempt to present as "me". WYSIWYG.
But I still don't know who I'm looking for.

12:35 PM
Jim Sande said...

These things are dependent on many factors. Everybody perceives everything differently. Some people are very externally and materialistically oriented, it's a part of the times. Some people are trying to look below the surface. I'm sure I irritate people because of how I look, dress, and carry myself. To others I'm invisible. None of it is important essentially because we ultimately are responsible for our own beliefs and sense of who or what we are. The Buddhists would say, we don't even have a self! So there's that too. BTW that does not mean we are valueless and insignificant.

1:02 PM
Mark said...

"...we ultimately are responsible for our own beliefs and sense of who or what we are. The Buddhists would say, we don't even have a self!"
I agree that none of it is important, but most are not so enlightened that we have no attachment to how we are perceived by others.
We travel a (mostly unconscious) path to perhaps get a sense of who or what we are and look for our reflection in other's eyes.
Regardless of the type of person we are (external/material vs internal/below the surface), we expend life energy on public persona. I'd go so far as to say false persona.

2:48 PM
Jim Sande said...

Sure, well there are social conventions and there's an unspoken contract that we more or less agree with it. These things are not a problem, the only problem arises when we become overly attached to them, and that means that we have lost our perspective. We're talking about people who are consumed by their appearance.

4:09 PM

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