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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by chronofar on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:36AM (#31986188)
This is also why I never started a blog, and don’t maintain any social media accounts. Participating in forums like this already drives some self-obsessive behavior (watching for upvotes and proverbial nodding heads), but a pulpit I fear would drive near incessant “audience awareness,” a constant reflection of my ego’s shape as perceived by others. Our social proclivities are to easily supercharged to neuroses with modern technology.

Or maybe I’m just lazy.

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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by mgfist on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:30AM (#31988606)
That's funny, my reasoning comes from the opposite end of the ego spectrum - creating a blog or any other kind of social media presence means putting myself out there and inviting attacks on my ego. So I avoid doing so to protect my ego. Anytime I think of doing a writeup of something and sharing online, my subconscious starts thinking about how people will perceive and judge my work and I scram back into my ego shelter. I won't have to face feedback and criticism if no one hears about me or my work :D
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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by mmmpop on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:02PM (#31994310)
> Or maybe I’m just lazy.

Hit me up if you figure this one out. I can't be bothered to get my personal website back up and it's just an nginx configuration away for about a year now.

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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by zuzuleinen on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:59AM (#31986697)
Indeed, everytime I take a break from sharing posts on social media I feel much better
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Re:He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields M... by shreyshnaccount on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:14AM (#31987265)
and i announce that by sharing a post that I'll be taking a break. its kinda like toasting to that I'll stop drinking the next morning. on a serious note tho, I don't really get why he says that poetry places importance on the ego- maybe it's a cultural difference, but a lot of great poems I'm familiar with are about nature and made up characters etc. tho i see how so many really really good poems throughout history are an overblown retelling of what I can only assume is the product of faith and mushrooms (looking at you, Dante)
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