I love this article. Thank you, Frederick! I love the symbolism of walls as the lack of conscience.
However, we don’t all have a conflict inside. Our culture is not threatened by our primal intincts, in the least. Quite on the contrary, the two enhance each other. Just think of adventure, sex, food, work meetings, even sleep - everything is better when primal desires work in hand with creative thinking. We have no Minotaur inside. Our Minotaurs are outside.
The only thing that threatens our culture is other culture: one no greater in instinct but lesser in taste, thought and effort. We all get infected with violence and stereotype, not born with it.
The Minotaur symbolizes punishment for exercising freedom, so as to instill the fear of rule and authority. At the storyline level, it’s our culture that broke him.
It seems these questions come only after basic survival needs are met. For the last 17 years of working, my sole focus was to save and pay off mortgage debt (and to go out, have fun, exercise, etc). I had no worries or anxieties, no spare time for silence and to reflect. The path was fairly clear.
Now, with finances in much better shape, all these hard existential questions are popping up for me. And I have few to no good answers. And the answer keeps changing too.
Great post. Do you have any posts detailing the practicalities of this? I know here you list some questions to ask yourself, but are there any exercises you would recommend to gain more clarity around this? Thank you
I really enjoyed this post Frederick. It is the first I've read, but I am now a subscriber and am recommending to the readers of my substack, Think. Read. Write. Repeat. tomorrow. Keep doing what you're doing!
Thank you Frederik. I stumbled upon a screenshot from this post on X (twitter), it resonated, and I subscribed. It is worth every penny. I will enter the maze.
A post of very high quality, thanks Frederik.
I love this article. Thank you, Frederick! I love the symbolism of walls as the lack of conscience.
However, we don’t all have a conflict inside. Our culture is not threatened by our primal intincts, in the least. Quite on the contrary, the two enhance each other. Just think of adventure, sex, food, work meetings, even sleep - everything is better when primal desires work in hand with creative thinking. We have no Minotaur inside. Our Minotaurs are outside.
The only thing that threatens our culture is other culture: one no greater in instinct but lesser in taste, thought and effort. We all get infected with violence and stereotype, not born with it.
The Minotaur symbolizes punishment for exercising freedom, so as to instill the fear of rule and authority. At the storyline level, it’s our culture that broke him.
Great read
It seems these questions come only after basic survival needs are met. For the last 17 years of working, my sole focus was to save and pay off mortgage debt (and to go out, have fun, exercise, etc). I had no worries or anxieties, no spare time for silence and to reflect. The path was fairly clear.
Now, with finances in much better shape, all these hard existential questions are popping up for me. And I have few to no good answers. And the answer keeps changing too.
Well, thanks for the great post!
Great post. Do you have any posts detailing the practicalities of this? I know here you list some questions to ask yourself, but are there any exercises you would recommend to gain more clarity around this? Thank you
I really enjoyed this post Frederick. It is the first I've read, but I am now a subscriber and am recommending to the readers of my substack, Think. Read. Write. Repeat. tomorrow. Keep doing what you're doing!
you're the GOAT!
Thank you Frederik. I stumbled upon a screenshot from this post on X (twitter), it resonated, and I subscribed. It is worth every penny. I will enter the maze.
Thanks for the great content!
Beautiful piece of work
Boring.