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Categories versus practices: moral leadership & teenagers running amok

In a few comments elsewhere I have started using the term Janus ratio, to describe our threshold of attention, the gate on which it pivots is the urge to live. I’ll try to make sense of it, by some attempts at definition of this neologism, below. The Janus ratio describes the proportions of attention we each direct within and without, consciously and/or conscientiously.

Post that mention narcissists or psychopaths Casewell’s Jaspers, but meika’s Deleuzian Bergsonism. Posts that are about narcssists or psychopaths Posts that are about how narcssists and psychopaths differ from similar looking behaviours on that self-centred spectrum the sky pool -- Colin Wilson and diagnoses generally and specific

To face tomorrow is to world today, expecting… a child hopefully fears its innocence and naives a plan and so mishaps the world, any… —all, does not exist. But is where we are headed, never to arrive we adult into our worsts, see, and the world lies before us in a moment of care that says fare well. The World—“Pam-A”…

Self-care as salvation-- all authenticity but no responsibility Deborah Casewell in her aeon.co essay raises some notice on Karl Jaspers’ existentialist angst-mongering, how it has been mis-categorized (by Sartre) such that Jaspers as an inventor of the word existentialism he gave it away after losing control of the branding in the marketplace of ideas, but, Casewell reminds us, the “focus on the individual, the importance…