{"id":660,"date":"2012-02-11T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=660"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:38:41","slug":"new-seven-deadly-vices-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"New Seven Deadly Vices: Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/banal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-661\" title=\"banal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/banal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/banal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/banal-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self-explanatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the laziest things in life is copying something or being a copy of an original.<!--more--> In this mass market age, the age of normality conditions us that Sticking Out is wrong, that being a deviant is dangerous, and we should fit in, try to follow the crowd, conform to the norms. Wear jeans. Drink Budweiser. &#8220;Be different&#8221; is just a tagline that demands loyalty to a brand name.<\/p>\n<p>While it is true that by being a member of some group, you are exploring some aspect of your curiosity, being varied, and engage in some exaggerated self-dissection, you end up trading in your unique individuality for a slow slide towards <em><strong>inauthenticity<\/strong><\/em>, a leveling down towards the insensitivity of &#8220;us vs them&#8221; thinking.<\/p>\n<p>To be banal, spout hackneyed clich\u00e9s like play it safe, don&#8217;t rock the boat, and settle for derivative work ensure nothing but <strong>mediocrity<\/strong> &#8211; an inauthentic life. Once you accept this, your life is effectively irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Neither society nor culture has the right to determine your role. Your identity awaits to be re-created anew &#8212; all on your terms.<\/p>\n<p>One of life&#8217;s great pleasures is the new &#8211; the promise of something yet undiscovered. No great experience is possible without risk.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is \u2014 to live dangerously.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p>#1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=642\">Ignorance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=654\">Seriousness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=669\">Prudery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=683\">Humility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#6.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=692\">Self-Deception<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=703\">Boredom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the laziest things in life is copying something or being a copy of an original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[9,1,3],"tags":[77,254,252],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-aE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}