Re:The open source paradox
by hjntmp on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:36AM
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The beauty of it is that once you craate something and you share it you have already contributed something. I think that what you feel has more to do with your educaction. Like I said it is all in your head and you do that to yourself.
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Contributing "something" isn't that satisfying or fulfilling to me, even though it can undoubtedly be helpful. Perhaps it's just my personality.
In some ways it has to do with the fact that people are educated to have a need for validation from an authority and several other ways of thinking that are completely counterproductive.
Validation from authority is not counterproductive. People who need zero external validation are at risk of psychotic behavior because they have no grounding.
Love, care and a nurturing social structure wihle developing as a child is what keeps a child healthy. What I meant was that self worth is tied with validation from authority. A sense of inadequacy is always fomented and all the other nonsense of the social experiments we call schools.And at some point you need to wake up to the fact that in a way its just a big theater. That's why you have theories like Rousseau's social contract. You need to answer to the question why are we doing this again?