Pardon the title...

Placeholder body text until I write down what I'm thinking of.

This is only a reflection of my personal experiences with low self-esteem and how it's affected my thinking. At some point I may delve into some real research and write something more legitimate. 

This will be continually expanded with dated entries.
 

To be continued

 

 

Turns inward

 

Relentlessly attacked.

 

nothing is produced except for what is forced by the compulsion to self-criticize

 

Self-esteem

 

Self-negation

 

 

New part to add 09/27/2021, anecdote from Ethics class: (I think I'll put this at the beginning)

I was rather surprised that she'd regarded it as a new insight.

I had been suspended in a sea of

But what you're really doing is surrendering yourself of your accountability--your self-determination--your reason.

The thing is that it isn't entirely valueless.

Giving all the credit to somebody else

A maladaptive philosophy

corruption of the curious, truth-seeking instinct.

(attempting to correct the course of logic --thoughts as network, not insular--avoiding deception, social issues, how it plays out on a societal scale? perhaps instinctual/unconscious knowledge of how minds/information spread works--collectivism--Jung's "collective consciousness"? )