Right, but dig at this a bit, if you were doing something that were getting tired of, i.e., that drained you as a person, that left you empty and even misguided and you made a decision to stop doing it, you became a *better* person. And insofar as other people continue to have their minds addled by watching TV, they do not. Just to be clear, I applaud you for not watching TV (contra what was being assumed by others, I wasn't calling you a moron, I was framing as a conditional) and I have no problem saying that all else being equal you're better than people who continue to do so. Why are we always so scared of allowing that one person can be better than another? Fuck it, embrace it, you don't watch the stupid crap they broadcast on TV, an activity, unlike almost anything else you could do, that is almost entirely passive, and because of it you're better than a comparable person who does.
(I think we refrain from acknowledging that a person A could be better than B because we worry, bizarrely, that it somehow violates equality under the law principles of democracy, which is, of course, ludicrous, but nonetheless seems to concern people.)
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Date: 7/5/10 00:41 (UTC)(I think we refrain from acknowledging that a person A could be better than B because we worry, bizarrely, that it somehow violates equality under the law principles of democracy, which is, of course, ludicrous, but nonetheless seems to concern people.)