Comments on: One Who Is Subtle http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2009/03/01/one-who-is-subtle/ The World according to the 'introvert' and the 'nerd' Tue, 29 May 2012 13:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Role of Reading for Introverts and Extroverts | Neurodiversity http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2009/03/01/one-who-is-subtle/#comment-801 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:15:10 +0000 http://introvertchronicle.wordpress.com/?p=116#comment-801 [...]  One Who Is Subtle Posted by Zygmunt on 01/10/11 in Art/Play/Myth, featured | No Comments | Read [...]

]]> By: unclegluon http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2009/03/01/one-who-is-subtle/#comment-14 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:06:03 +0000 http://introvertchronicle.wordpress.com/?p=116#comment-14 We are taught from birth that the map is more substantial than the ground, that all that matters is the approval of others.
In theory everyone could collectively decide to stop believing currency has value. Likewise, the social conventions that govern all our lives would disappear the instant people decided to discard them.
No one person can stop believing in social conventions without being ostracized at best and being thrown in a mad house at worst. Thus, we all live under a tyranny that results directly from collective life. Forever being subject to the rule of this Social Ghost causes us to forget anything else exists.

]]> By: Christian http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2009/03/01/one-who-is-subtle/#comment-10 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:25:49 +0000 http://introvertchronicle.wordpress.com/?p=116#comment-10 “If the map doesn’t agree with the ground, the map is wrong.”

Dr. Gordon Livingston

Your post recalled this quote for me. Many times, society tries to sell us a faulty map, when we truly recognize that the ground beneath our own feet is the real guide to what is.

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