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There are two ways to be fooled.
One is to believe what isn't true;
the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
When it comes to making actual progress, self-debullshitification is the name of the game. The whole process is one of simply elevating one’s perspective out of the tarpit of communal blindness and ignorance, through progressively less distorted, obstructed, and obscured levels of perspective. With every upward step, we understand more by misunderstanding less as we transition out of the dense jungle of belief, into the barren wasteland of knowing.
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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer widely regarded as the father of existentialism. Many of his works were published under pseudonyms, each representing different perspectives or “stages of life,” such as the aesthetic, ethical, and religious. His most influential books include Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, The Concept of Anxiety, and The Sickness Unto Death. Although underappreciated during his lifetime, Kierkegaard’s ideas profoundly influenced modern philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, shaping thinkers such as Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and Tillich.