Link to swell blog posting...

[dlgood]

Earlier, londonkds linked to this remarkable* post on personal judgement, and the stories we tell ourselves.

* Seeing as I am remarking upon it, it is by definition remarkable...

A few passages I particularly appreciated:

• you can only try as hard as you can to develop good judgment, and not to let yourself be seduced by an image of yourself, before the need for good judgment arises (snip) You have no choice but to trust your own judgment, but the task of making it trustworthy is one you need to undertake well before that moment arises.


• the reason you are wrong might just be bad luck, but it might also be that you have accepted a story about yourself, and failed to notice that however flattering, it is just not true.


• with the right story in place, you can convince yourself that you are at one of those points: that something you want to do, and that is badly wrong, is in fact a difficult and even heroic gesture that only a person dedicated to virtue and justice could make. Here you are not just mistaken about the story you inhabit; you are actively falsifying it in order to allow yourself to pretend that you are not evil, but heroic. (snip) the more gloriously compelling the lie you tell about yourself, the more useful it is in protecting you from the knowledge of what you are really doing.

There was an "Othello" discussion. It was instructive...

Given that I do have a decent sized flist, I feel like I should be generating some better content these days. But, ehh. I'm working on a project re:future state of US Mine Warfare Countermeasures and it's pretty sticky right now. So this link is all I've got.

But feel free to read and come back here and initiate discussion on a case study or two from your favorite TV show. I'm all excited to get into a discussion today as long as it's one I don't really have to start.