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Empathetic Shame
What people do not accept is not so much the things we are or could be ashamed of but the shame we feel or could feel itself. Read more ...
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Vanity and Shame
Vanity is the need to be loved and shame the fear of not being loved. Our society is based on vanity and shame, but in this it is also based on a need for love, and there is therefore a basis of good in society even in all its evil. Read more ...
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Shame and Slavery
Shame is all that enslaves us to society. Once we are without shame we are free from it, and this why we were happier as children. Read more ...
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Social Control by Shame
Shame is society’s means to control the minds of its people. When you feel ashamed when you know you should not, know that you feel that way because society sees you as its slave and deep down, so do you, and thus speak to your pride until it overcomes it. Read more ...
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Conceit and Shame
All the evil of humanity comes only as much to the conceit of its leaders than it does to the shame of its followers. Its followers must learn pride as much as its leaders must learn humility, but the problem is that as its followers only see the conceit in its leaders, they think it to be the ... Read more ...
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Shame and Evil
For many the greatest cause of evil is the shame at evil already committed, as shame may cause not only despair of becoming a better person, but also self-hatred, and because others’ feelings are also our own, hating others can be a way of hating ourselves. Shame may make it harder for us to fa... Read more ...
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The Shame and Confusion of Wanting
"Small children have no compunctions about saying, even shrieking, what they want. At a critical point, though -- third grade, fourth grade, fifth -- the shame of wanting sets in." Ellen Tien's essay, Just Say What You Want , makes a number of interesting points, not the least of w... Read more ...
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