On the other side, the Socratic method, not trying to go and add something valuable, but just trying to take away from somebody else's argument, requires no altar, no sacrifice, and offers the reward of perceived virtue. As long as you're rooting out the falsehood and the dissonance of the world, you are justifying whatever unmet dissonance, conflict and contradiction is within you. We see this in our political banter
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:51
And some people posit that if you live in a more monastic life, you will have more peace. And from that great peace comes that light that can shine on others. So there's a lot to say about the Zen perspective of just staying completely at peace and detached and in that great space, you emanate out greatness and people will follow and be the same. But the noise of the world in the other track, it's not that it's seductive and beautiful