My life has been so much better ever since I traded my impostor syndrome to brilliant conman -syndrome. Do I deserve anything in life? Fuck no! Will I grasp it anyway? Fuck yes!
My art has never been worth shit, but watch me bullshit my way into art school! I am a horrid goblin, but watch me make these people like me! Am I qualified to do this task? Well I sure have the certificates that say that I am! And how did I get those? Who knows! Not me! I am so good at cheating, I don’t have to break a single rule to do it!
I am brilliant, fast, and absolutely drunk with power!
Yeah I love manipulating my friends for my own gain, the gain is called "hanging out", obtained via such cruel tactics as "showing interest in stuff they like" and "being generally complimentary and charming"
“My standpoint is armed neutrality.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers
stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life
how do i break the cycle
prepare yourself for the absolutely insufferable lack of satisfaction found in forgiveness
Let’s face it, if the world ends, so many of us will flee somewhere else for safety that we’ll end right back up in communities again. There’s going to be more to it than growing your own food and knitting handspun socks.
I’m linking to resources, but a many of these skills, being interpersonal, are best taught in live trainings by professional instructors, where you can see and feel all the interpersonal dynamics going on in the room, and by experience, trying them out on real people in an educational setting.
When the world ends, it will be helpful to be able to::
Run a meeting
Peacefully negotiate
De-escalate a potentially violent situation
Organize a community
Cope when you’re having a panic attack
Co-regulate to help a child keep calm
Identify community resources
Protest safely and peacefully
Even small local pieces of activism today, like organizing a protest march or lobbying your municipal government to make public spaces more accessible, have a double reward: There’s the work you’re doing, and the skills you learn when you do it.
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