“JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?LENORE: I would kill for a shower.”
― David Foster Wallace

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pretense or pretence
we “discussed” the diff’rences
(i’m tense either way)

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@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 28th February 2024 is:

#pretence/pretense

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

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Word Search Puzzle 376

Word List : #topwise #takeouts #airest #overused #tatouay #leam #yoks #gypsyfy #parazoan #pretence #basileus #nongray #copihue #soaker #basiate #really #peltast #fumarate

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-376/

The invisibility of the structure of human society

Becoming objective toward society encounters more obstacles than being objective toward our own mind.  Perhaps we can pretend to grasp the involvement of the ego because it operates within us. However, we cannot pretend to know the involvement of the socius as it is outside us; but it is an outside to which we are inescapably tied.

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I’m meditating by rewriting a passage by Moreno. The lines above are where I got to.  The gender & grammar needed  fixing etc.  I think his idea shines through in the passage above.  See his original below.

I love seeing the equivalence of ego and socius.

Here is the original:

“but the degree of invisibility of the structure of human society, of its sociodynamics, is much greater than that of the single individual. The effort of becoming objective toward the socius encounters many more obstacles than to be objective toward his own individual mind. The involvement of the ego he can still grasp, perhaps he can pretend to know it because it operates within him. The involvement of the socius, however, he cannot pretend to know as it operates outside of him; but it is an outside to which he is inescapably tied.”

See this post. Where there is more on this topic.

https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com/2023/the-invisibility-of-the-structure-of-human-society/

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A quotation from Jackson, Robert H.:

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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jackson-robert-h/16723/

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A quotation from Rothfuss, Patrick:

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You see, there’s a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rothfuss-patrick/60163/

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A quotation from Martial:

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You recite no verse, Mamercus, but claim you write.
Claim what you like — so long as you don’t recite.

[Nil recitas et vis, Mamerce, poeta videri.
Quidquid vis esto, dummodo nil recites.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martial/59706/

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