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All right, this is going to get personal and weird and we're just going to do it because we do things like this from time to time

I want you to picture the things you don't like in life or that you haven't liked in life. It can be a trend in art or culture or something that rubs you the wrong way.

It can be an enemy or a rival that you had at work or in school or on a team or whatever.

But let's go to the dark place for just a second and think

about stuff that you don't like now let's think about this don't say it all

loud why don't you like it? Really? Honestly, why not? Okay, probably. Some of your answer for some of this is because the thing is bad. It's bad for other people, it's bad for me, it's not just, it's not good,

and you've got some sort of clear moral standing, some sort of clear moral narrative, for why it's not a good thing and you

should be opposed to it and it is virtuous to be opposed to it. Yeah right on that's

righteous anger I mean that makes perfect sense. It's a good thing to feel moral opposition to things

that are not good. But I'm guessing that if we didn't think about a little longer

things will also come to mind where it's like

certain things that we might find off-putting, even silly little trite things that

probably shouldn't matter to us but somehow deep-down-do Maybe we feel a little guilty about that and

maybe we realize there's no good reason for me to dislike that. I can work up a

narrative in my brain for why I didn't like that you did that or I don't like the way that movie or this

style is working whatever. Maybe we can craft some kind of narrative but deep down we

know it's not really a great narrative and it's really more about our own insecurity and

grouchiness than it is about anybody else doing anything wrong. But the point is

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