Clichéd

All our thinking is bound to be in cliché; it could scarcely be other since our conditioning by education, education in it’s broadest sense, from the moment we are conceived has to come from the external world which does so by laying patterns already determined. One of the major differences ‘twixt the superior and inferior — and here it may be needful to wearily iterate the sublime truth that Inferior is not used in a pejorative sense, even by Nietzsche at his most scornful: this is classification, not judgement — is that the latter uses the latest fashionable cliches to hand, rather than through any process of selection.

Thus, a frequent attack in forums is to accuse people of passive-aggression, based on a misunderstanding of that term anyway: not being able to see that they are merely — entirely rightly — choosing to exercise insolence.

 

Burrowing Owl

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