We stretch everything we can stretch, hoping thereby to get the maximum amount of ‘good’ from it. We keep on stretching it (or ‘milking it’) until we can't stretch it anymore, and that's when things start to go pear-shaped on...
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When we act out of the External Authority (rather than acting out of our own unprovable, unverifiable but also quite irreplaceable sense of interiority) not only does this make us instantly expendable, instantly replaceable, and instantly generic in nature, it...
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Conservative Mode isn't just about overtly trying to preserve stuff (or ‘hang onto the old’), it also comes into play – although not so obviously - every time we make a plan or conceive of a goal - plans and...
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The Extrinsic Self is always ‘on the outside’ - it’s always ‘on the outside, looking in’. It can’t ever partake in life, even though it longs to do so; it’s always on the wrong side of an impenetrable glass wall...
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