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[Hide] (641.5KB, 1350x1938) >>22024
>yeah, that's what i was thinking. i mean, to an extent, and from personal observation, emotional maturation seems to be something of an intuitive process, so i do get what he's saying
Emotional maturation is literally just that, having more experiences and pre-established patterns to fall into in tense situations. Maybe a little battle testing and winnowing of existing responses, though I feel like that's pretty difficult without the appropriate circumstances for reflection. You can certainly meditate on your own actions but it requires all at once a detachment, a solitude, and a lack of cyclic pattern that anyone with any kind of schedule or cohabitants or just sufficiently mired bad habits is not really going to get in and of themselves.
>but of course, books give you detailed knowledge that you can't usually get otherwise.
You absolutely can get the same information without books, it's just a way to checkmark the progress so that you aren't doing 4000 years of work from scratch.
>it seems so sinister that these statements are almost half truths, as if to almost manipulate it's audience into perceiving the world in any way that they desire
That's not sinister. It's honest. He set out to be a professional eceleb, and now he tells people things they want to hear so he gets paid. Sensible, straightforward, understandable, someone you can communicate with and understand where they're coming from. It's when people drop the ball like in the third image and betray their own professional standards that it's uncomfortable; it suggests that he isn't reflecting on his own statements and his own work. That said, it's probably actually nessecary to his branding image. I've heard much worse things from a wide range of speakers that I'd consider 'the average person'; his audience might actually want statements like that as part of their pandering.
>but will always reveal itself to be deceitful in it's true nature.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Works don't have intrinsic divine truths. They're all incidental.
>>22028
>yeah, but when your words reach a large audience, i feel like it becomes important to not have your message be misinterpreted, especially on the internet
I tended to feel the same way, and it'd especially bother me when someone did like shitty reviews for a game that they themselves butchered or praised in spite of it's obvious and glaring flaws and total lack of any even possible crumb of the slightest sliver of value even leaving aside that it was a monument of filth and terrible decisions and lack of basic genre understanding, writing ability, respect for predecesor works, or narrative sensibility. I had the sort of desire to believe (and still struggle with, I suppose) that when this sort of aimless malebogian scam betrays my expectations that it was malcious, you know, a work of genius and intent. But I'm coming to accept that people are caught up in grand narratives and you can't see that you are, y'know, day-to-day, moment-to-moment, as you live your life and put out absolute dogshit garbage when some terrible specter or other grips you hand and forces you to write drivel in praise of drivel. It happens. It's a great virus of the mind. It isn't a moral failure to catch ebola, it might suggest that your hygiene was poor but there's still elements of chance and the incidental nature of ignorance. Of course, it's still disturbing to see someone who in a sense is preparing some of your food blow up into a ball of impotent pus and collapse infront of you, regardless of whether you subsequently see them recovered or they proceed straight to the morgue and the deep circles where they belong.
>>22025
I don't try to contact and fuck with them. If it's a problem I'll just cut them off and whatever else can't be avoided if it's worth it (which it often is). You're the agressor here and you've never even really explained why you're pulling this shit.
>>22034
Is Ai-chan vomiting the cutest page in history?