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{{Quote|HAMLET: Madam, how like you this play? <br> | {{Quote| | ||
HAMLET: Madam, how like you this play? <br> | |||
QUEEN: The lady doth protest too much, methinks. | QUEEN: The lady doth protest too much, methinks. | ||
:— ''Hamlet'', III, ii}}{{a|devil|{{image|Lucky Bastard|jpg|The lived experience when you are not “a proper little jailer’s pet”, yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}}Knowledge about the world one gains, first-hand, by living through it. | :— ''Hamlet'', III, ii}}{{a|devil|{{image|Lucky Bastard|jpg|The lived experience when you are not “a proper little jailer’s pet”, yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}}Knowledge about the world one gains, first-hand, by living through it. | ||
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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''. | 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 (and, for that matter, successes). For, if you have the time, energy and platform — that is, the ''luxury'' — to do that, they will hardly seem existential in nature. The converse is just as true: if | ''Suppress'' the instinct to yawp about your own problems (and, for that matter, successes). For, if you have the time, energy and platform — that is, the ''luxury'' — to do that, they will hardly seem existential in nature. The converse is just as true: 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=== | ===Lived experience as a finite game=== | ||
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{{Sa}} | {{Sa}} | ||
*[[Path-dependent]] | *[[Path-dependent|Path-dependency]] | ||
*[[Standpoint|Standpoint philosophy]] | |||
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