We’re discouraged from doing more and more of the things that help us evolve while encouraged to do things that keep us psychologically stunted.
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becoming an adult is to arrive at the understanding that you’ll be shamed and punished for your virtues and rewarded and exalted for your sins. that society will not encourage you to be humble and enlightened. on the contrary: it will condition you to perpetuate the ratcheting neuroses and pretense that undergirds it all.
The Prancing Apprentice 