"…foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…"

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It also means that by having this rigid perspective of good, bad, we're not allowing for forgiveness over time or grace or understanding or a recognition of a single Blip or even two Blips does not necessarily define the human

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But there is a hypocrisy to it because we talk about diversity, we talk about creativity, about originality, and yet we behave in the opposite way. So it's definitely something to think about. Anyway, I'm not quite sure of what I want to say about it, so I'll stop here. But there's definitely a lot more going on to this one than what I'm going to talk about. Thank you
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@MoonPoet

It's an interesting paradox, isn't it? I don't know exactly how to make sense of this, but at the moment, my thought is, I think from an evolutionary perspective, that humans, we find safety and comfort in what is familiar and that conformity helps to manufacture that familiarity. But because we're talking about safety and comfort, how one describes those is going to be different for each person, right? Some are not afraid of heights. Some are
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And what's the worst that could happen? It's just a little hashtag. That's where it starts. That's where maybe instead of giving into authentic communication, you fall prey to the prompts. Where instead of sharing what's on your mind, you go, I might as well talk about this thing. They want me to talk about. It's not really conforming per se. It is this human desire for acknowledgment. That's it
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@Binati_Sheth

And speaking of philosophers or thinkers of the past, not having Twitter and so on. It's interesting, though, how some ideas can still be carried forward like the the consistency around character and then using those thoughts in the context of online spaces and cancel culture and reputation status, et cetera. Yeah
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