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-{{a|devil|{{image|Lucky Bastard|jpg|A proper little “jailer’s pet”, yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}}
+{{a|devil|{{image|Lucky Bastard|jpg|The lived experience when you are not “a proper little jailer’s pet”, yesterday.}}}}{{Quote|
-Knowledge about the world one accumulates by gained first-hand by living through it. Knowledge that is joyously subjective, and not the quasi-objective, pseudo-knowledge by which we are all systematically indoctrinated through social institutions such as the education system, government and the calculating fingers of the media.
+{{script|Hamlet}}:  [[Hamlet’s mum|Madam]], how like you this play? <br>
+{{script|Queen}}:  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
+:— ''Hamlet'', III, ii}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}}Knowledge about the world one gains, first-hand, by living through it.
-Can get confusing when you consider the lived experience of being indoctrinated through social institutions like school.
+Knowledge that is joyously ''subjective'', and not the quasi-objective, pseudo-knowledge by which we are all systematically indoctrinated through insidious social institutions like our education, socialisation, government, the corporate chumocracy and, to the extent it is any different, the calculating fingers of the media.
-In any rate, subjective, and — where, thanks to one or more intersecting marginalisations, one’s particular lived experience has not been a happy one — a justification for prioritising your ghastly experience over those more fortunate, or at any rate less marginalised, when deciding the policies which should govern the implicated social institutions.
+Each person’s “lived experience” is necessarily unique and, taken ''ad absurdum'', unavailable — literally “[[ineffable]]” — to another. Which is true, of all of us, but makes you wonder what its value really is, except by way of unconditional surrender to the human condition.
-It’s a bit circular like that.
+This calls to mind a stanza in one of the JC’s favourite [[Ogden Nash]] poem:
-===Relevance to the conversation===
+{{quote|
-An unusual standpoint, is a valuable perspective
+{{Ogden nash listen}}}}
-to bear in mind when the community discusses, or designs common utilities. The Dutch — being the tallest nation on earth, should consider the lot of those possessed of shorter statures when designing bookshelves.
-The standpoint of short people is unlikely, past adolescence, to change. It is a permanent fact of biology. This seems equally so of standpoints informed not by physiognomy but history. Especially historical ''[[grievance]]''. As we remark below, one can renarrate, but not ''change'', history. If your great grandfather was a slave, or kept them, there is nothing you can do about that now.
+Of course, knowing what one’s “lived experience” is can get confusing when you consider it ''includes'' being indoctrinated into those lesser forms of pseudo-knowledge, through social institutions like school, university, work, the internet and, well, people on it who witter on about “lived experiences” all the time.  Yes: like the JC.
-The question arises ''who'' is responsible for ''redressing'' that grievance, and ''what'' they can do to redress it.
+In any rate, your lived experience is personal, subjective and your own business, to be ''minded'' as such: though you may be politely indulged, no-one much cares to hear about it.<ref>The proprietors of ''The Times'' appear to believe, wrongly, that this rule does not to apply to Robert Crampton, for some reason.</ref> So, life advice, kids, from the Dale Carnegie school of winning friends and influencing people: frame your interactions with the world in terms of ''others''’ lived experiences, not your own, lest you come across as a ''bore''.
+''Suppress'' the instinct to yawp about your own problems. For, if you have the time, energy and platform — that is, the ''luxury'' — to do that, they will hardly seem existential in nature to anyone minded to listen. The converse is just as true for those [[Inclined to|inclined]] to [[Humblebraggadocio|humblebrag]] about [[industry awards]] and [[Guide to the legal profession|Chambers]]’ rankings: if things are so good, why waste your time ''crowing'' about it, rather than just getting on with the ''winning''?
+Disingenuously complaining about your lot — let’s call it “[[humblegriping]]” — is a dark inversion of [[Humblebraggadocio|humblebragging]]. No more edifying, and so much more of a downer. Tiresome though he is, you rarely hear the humblebragger droning on about his lived experience.
 ===Lived experience as a finite game===
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-*[[Path-dependent]]
+*[[Path-dependent|Path-dependency]]
+*[[Standpoint|Standpoint philosophy]]
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