- Illiterate wrote:
- Being truly and totally indifferent, or being totally fake. Which is truly the superior?
Indifference cannot be faked....assimilation can be faked, and it is sometimes necessary.
What determines, which of these two strategies occur in an individual (that is above average)?[/quote]
Civilization is founded on hypocrisy - self-repression; adopting a character to conceal a personae.
Even one on one relationship necessitates self-repression, so as to preserve its harmony.
We are attracted to those which we deem will require the least self-repressionn to maintain it - we call this 'being ourselves', or 'feeling free to be our genuine self', which is not entirely true.
Over time some come to believe that the pretence is real, if a civilization indoctrinates and cultivates its citizenry for a long enough period of time its citizenry all play a role, a character.
The indoctrinated midwits and dimwits lack any degree of personae to conceal they would consider stressful - they are almost entirely the character they've adopted to portray; or was imposed upon them.
There's not much to fake when an individual is shallow and a social caricature. Political-correctnes comes easy to those who adopt convectional beliefs and have developed no personal judgements that may contradict them.
- Illiterate wrote:
- What are the physical/mental/environmental factors that correlate with fakeness, and the indiffence?
Like with god of Abraham - it is punishment (
fear) and reward (
bribery, seduction) that imposes self-repressino, adopting a social ideal - a caricature, a character.
Indifference has to do with power.
Power is free from conventions - independent form the herd and its ideals, beliefs, convictions.
Indifference has access to options a powerless individual can think of choosing.
Indifference towards the particular - comes off as confidence - is determined by an individuals quantity and quality of alternative options.
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