The act of writing down, externalizing your thoughts on the page is so crucial to seeing your tendencies for self deception in a way that I don't think other practices have like the same degree of. And yeah, I've been listening to a lecture series recently, actually like awakening from the meaning crisis by John Verveke. It's this crucial difference between the pre and the post axial revolution where people for the first time ever in droves realized how much you deceive yourself on a day to day basis.

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