My friend Brad Berens' recent "TiVo Guilt" conversation continues and my researching something totally unrelated and meeting at Hecate's crossroads is yet another example of serendipity's action in my life. While searching something completely unrelated I came upon some research conducted at Wake Forest in the late '90s early '00s.
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A recent conversation with another friend, this one about the meaning of "voluble", led to my "...oh, for the days when we simply heaved our Oxford English/American Dictionary onto the table with a resounding crash, looked up the word of interest, followed it to other words we never knew existed and left sated in our knowledge..."
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So there I was doing a journal search on prime Ramanujan numbers one day after conversing with Brad about his new found fame and discovered research that indicates (rather strongly) that people who are prey to addictions, guilts, etc., conceive of themselves as being lower in the social order than those who...ahem...don't suffer from such maledictions.
And I think this is where I point to...
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And now a question for you. Do you find you do not count yourself as high on anybody's social order because you do not stive to achieve a high position or because you strive not to achieve a high position?
Perhaps the people who are prey to addictions, guilts, etc., conceive of themselves as being lower in the social order than those who...ahem...don't suffer from such maledictions are also quite desirous of the higher position in the social order. Perhaps the addictions are simply distractions from other perceived social inadequecies. Or perhaps those with addictions recognize one the effect of their addictions is diminished social position, but the diminished social position is not a cause of addiction.
Perhaps the unfortunate guffaw is you have not yet confronted the addiction, guilt, etc. that has driven your perception of your social position. Perhaps that is WRONG ..., but you know what they say about the search for the truth.
Posted by: Windkiller | December 4, 2008 2:03 PM | Permalink to Comment
Good thoughts, as always, 'Killer. My response is at Responding to WindKiller's comment on "What Tivo Guilt, etc., tells us about ourselves".
Enjoy and keep commenting.
Joseph
Posted by: Joseph Carrabis | December 29, 2008 8:57 AM | Permalink to Comment