Reed:
>I hate perceiving in myself the very weaknesses I most criticize in
>others.
Me too, and I've come to the conclusion (about myself anyway, any
other takers?) that there's a direct connection at work here. I think
those memes that I carry which wouldn't survive close scrutiny defend
themselves by making me passionately opposed to seeing them in other
people, clouding my mind sufficiently that I forget to look for them
in myself. My defence? When I find myself getting negatively
passionate about something I make a mental note to sit down with
myself at the earliest opportunity and have a close look at where
that passion came from. Sometimes it's that I've been personally
affected in the past by whatever it is that got my back up, but often
enough to make the investigations worthwhile I find that I'm guilty
of the very same thing.
Just my small step towards engineering my own memes.
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