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- From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
- Newsgroups: ba.singles
- Subject: Jeff Koons exhibit sucked like his vacuum cleaners from Kmart
- Message-ID: <74545@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:05:25 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >Emphasis (^^^) mine.
- >
- >DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
- >
- >>> 1) A Superhuman
- >>> Complex : A jerk has a need to feel superior. He places
- > ^^^^
- >>> an overemphasis on masculinity, competence,
- > ^^^^
- >>> abilities, and anything that makes him stand out.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >> I dont see anything wrong with it. An entire body of philosophy
- >>has been developed based on the innate human desire to achieve. Read
- >>Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra." and some of his other
- >>writings. There is a problem when somebody tries to feel superior by stepping
- >>on those around him, stabbing others in the back, etc. But if he is only
- >>competing with himself, I have no problem with that.
- >
- >Striving to achieve and trying to *feel* superior are two different things.
- >When someone is focused on *feeling* superior, one can't really achieve,
- >because one can't take criticism, either internal or external. (Criticism
- >destroys false feelings of superiority.) When someone is focused on
- >"standing out," then one is not really competing with oneself; one is using
- >a gauge of achievement based on the way others behave.
- >
- I see your point...
-
- No. I think my original reply to W. David was mostly playing the
- devil's advocate, so that somewhere in the middle between the two arguments
- would be the 'golden mean,' or, the 'balance' or the 'middle way' as the
- Tao monks put it.
-
-
- >If you really believe the gauge of superiority and achievement should
- >reside within you and not in others, try reading the I Ching instead
- >of Nietzsche.
- >
- Excuse my ignorance, but what is I Ching anyways? I *honestly*
- have no idea what it is -- although I have come across it many many times
- in Amorica. I have always thought that it was some book written by some
- Monk in Chinatown in the 70's.
-
- >--
- >Stef A man said to the universe:
- >stef@apple.com "Sir, I exist!"
- > "However," replied the universe,
- > "The fact has not created in me
- > A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
-
- Hmmm. My english prof in college gave that one to me after she graded my
- paper <<Camus' L'Etranger and the Death of Emotions>> (I was going
- through shitloads of Existential Angst). But the reply, according to her,
- was "However, that is of no significance to me."
- ---
- /bruce "Suspended in Hoffa..."
-