Alrighty great questions from the noble crew at freedomain. locals.com I hope that you will join

the conversation so a great place to be so would you expand on the me plus concept? So I first talked about this in my presentation on the death of Robin Williams and it goes a little something like this so let's say that you're lonely you want friends But you feel like you have to do something other than be yourself

to get your friends.

So you have to be compulsively jokey.

You have to be paying for everyone's drinks. You have to be the wingman. have to praise them you have to make them look better

you have to whatever it is something that's more than just yourself you have to also

kind of manipulate them by providing value other than who you are.

So you plus, right?

I mean, the foundational example of this is if you want a woman to sleep with you

That you have to pay her then it has to be you plus money to get her

To sleep with you so

That's the me-plus concept. And the listener goes on to say,

it seems to be entirely appropriate that my still theoretical wife would not like me

in a pure world of form sense, but only for that which I am and do for her.

In other words, what is the essence of me but the sum of the parts, some of which serve the children,

wife, community self-garde, some of which serve the children wife community self-gard, some of which do not.

A ridiculous example, what could it possibly mean to love a girlfriend if she's chosen obesity, cruelty, verbal abuse, to sterilize herself from ever procreating,

and to obstruct everything good about me.

Of course this would never happen, and how can one separate, loving her from all that which she is choosing?

The same.

How can she love, quote, me, irrespective of what I seem am and do.

Isn't the threat of losing the others affections a great incentive to stay good oneself?

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