Those are incompatible wishes. More regulation automatically leads to higher costs. Enforcing the “right” training and hence ideology also doesn’t help when the only thing that has an effect on therapeutic effectiveness is the extent to which a therapist and client vibe with each other.
Some people get bitter about failure, and then dump it in places where no one asked without any of the grace and introspection that might turn it from obnoxious to something others can learn from. That's the problem.
it's about people pressing their will on me simply because they didn't like what I was doing, with a vague follow-through that humanity is doomed because this is just how we are to each other.
it's how humans treat each other that I was saying is "messed up", because it is messed up. we are doomed.
the number of people that can follow the written word is astonishingly small, these days. I'm not a professional author, I don't have that skill, but I was not hiding my meaning in any way.
many readers just ascribe a personality to an author of a comment depending on their own mood at the time, then color their view of the entire passage as if that was the mood intended by the author, and they don't even realize they've done it.
these people vote, too.
doomed, I say.
Let's go back and remember what that comment was:
>> "Dare I say no one has done more for the blog form than Mr. Kottke. His humble, almost monkish 24-year commitment to not only the pursuit of knowledge and meaning in the world, but his absolute insistence on sharing that pursuit with anyone who wants to ride along in that journey is one of the all-time greatest contributions to the web."
>> "Godspeed, Jason. Be well and see you on the flip (in whatever way you deem fit)."
What does your wordvomit about your trauma re: blogging and the human condition have to do with asellke's kind words? You made everything about you.
>> "it isn't about kottke."
Correct. So why did you post it? Don't answer that. Move on.
The person who asked, and who I responded to. wolverine876 decided to double down in response to that.
But everyone who ever built anything good, from Newton to MLK to Norman Borlaug, were also humans and suffered from (and enjoyed) human nature.
I faced discouragement early on when I wanted to get into blogging—in my first attempt, I faced a guy who was effectively trying to cyberbully me—but I eventually found my way in. I’ve been at it ever since. I encourage you to give it another shot, if you haven’t.
That is my experience (in different fields), and it's the experience of many. It was before I understood how innovation and creativity work ('first they laugh at you ...') and also before I learned to know and love myself. Now I face the same responses for some aspects of my life, but there is no doubt anymore about what I should be doing.
But doubt or not, it can be lonely and stressful at times. There is a cost and it's not always worth paying. You have to know yourself to know the value of whatever you are doing, the cost to you, and whether that's worthwhile.