- By no means is 'absurd' to be avoided (it's actually aspirational to me), and I was speaking more to its place within society as a whole - openly [truly openly] speaking your unfiltered mind IS absurd. It might be the ambiguousness of my use of 'truly.'
- Understanding your mind and values and acting upon it is still refining the base thoughts we have - the example I used here, of expressing physical attraction the moment you feel it to someone you just met - and necessarily in the crude forms it may occur to you - is in complete disregard to the other's state of mind, time, place etc. With parrhesiastic honesty, intentionally so - this is what unrestrained honesty requires, risking that backlash.
A set of values will transform the thought, impose limitations on it, corral it through funnels of the social contract and it may just come out as something like "Hi nice to meet you"
“To truly speak your mind is absurd.” It’s only absurd if you don’t fully understand your mind and your values.
There's a lot to unpack here
- By no means is 'absurd' to be avoided (it's actually aspirational to me), and I was speaking more to its place within society as a whole - openly [truly openly] speaking your unfiltered mind IS absurd. It might be the ambiguousness of my use of 'truly.'
- Understanding your mind and values and acting upon it is still refining the base thoughts we have - the example I used here, of expressing physical attraction the moment you feel it to someone you just met - and necessarily in the crude forms it may occur to you - is in complete disregard to the other's state of mind, time, place etc. With parrhesiastic honesty, intentionally so - this is what unrestrained honesty requires, risking that backlash.
A set of values will transform the thought, impose limitations on it, corral it through funnels of the social contract and it may just come out as something like "Hi nice to meet you"