The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)

Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by amelius on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:05AM (#31060295)

So much for the age-old advice: "just be yourself".

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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by supertofu on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:06AM (#31060568)

Agreed. It's lazy and dismissive advice. I wish it wasn't such a trope in children's entertainment.

Most people don't have a fixed sense of self until adulthood. And wise adults understand that there's no self at all.

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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by BizarroLand on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:58PM (#31085732)

I reinterpreted it as "be the you you would be if you could control who you are", but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue

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Re:The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you... by 8bitsrule on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:54PM (#31065316)

>wise adults understand that there's no self at all

Except, of course, for Carl Jung. And Polonius in Hamlet. But that's all.

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