/lit/ - Literature

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No problem anon, it's a good night. I'll try to reply in-turn.

The struggle to be one's self is...yes, "cheesy cliche" is a fitting definition. I also agree, having glimpsed it barely yet naturally, that definitive self expression is plainly, the largest thing one must face in their life. Even how Tribalism is portrayed in this conversation; yes, yes, yes!


There is an ultimate crisis wherein, the purposes every individual has in joining the groups they choose to be within is put into question. Definitively following "tribalist" ways, individuals do not even side themselves according to whomever supports them, but they go by way of force; following perceptions which, they might not even believe themselves. However , they equally will lack a confidence in themselves and their ability to percieve truth, just as they lack confidence in what they percieve. In Tribalism truly, is a deep insincerity. You do it because it "looks right" but, what you "see" and what is "right" are constructs ascribing to a fantasy; jury-rigged and downgraded into a makeshift reality that winds up as a pasteurized mess of a product. In blunt: True tribalism is "faking it" to make it through, even though your heart and feelings are not with your choices.

There's a bit of a paradoxical wall I've run into myself right there, which Im must end at. Groups soometimes start to decline when individuals start to blame the group for "Forcing" them into desparate and negative behavior. This sort of event is like a match over gas, and can inspire tribalism, a counterculture to the tribalistic tendency, and chaos in the middle. It's what breaks groups down dramatically, if the incidents aren't handle with intelligence and the good faith that all parties are being their genuine selves. But in that case, this assumes that even the most vehement and big-mouthed liar, is at their most genuine in that moment.

So, with the struggle to find one's self, is also a struggle to know and hold the meaning of truth.

...I hope all that rant made sense. By now I've gone beyond just going "Oh I'm right, and you're wrong" into a genuine conversation.

I'll check this thread later; good night.