It is that one is not required to be one’s own enemy. In Reeducation this was required, and a great deal of academic advice is structured in the same way: one is to suspect and mistrust oneself. One could even harbor friendly feelings toward oneself.
I have done this sometimes — especially, as I remember, in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984; in 1989, 1990, 1991, the years in which I was the most myself.
But Reeducation was about making total war upon oneself, and academia is about fixating on deficiencies, as Hattie says, and on that one false step that can send you hurtling down the ravine.
But one is not actually required to be one’s own enemy, and one could even harbor friendly feelings toward oneself.
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Axé.
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