A cultural ideology that is based on relativism must inevitably lead to mediocrity. Where there is no criticism, there is increasingly no excellence. For to "excel" is by definition to be distinguished in a positive way from other things. It is a declaration that one thing is preferable to another.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
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“Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.”
— Farnam Street Newsletter
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In any culture in which criticism is increasingly discouraged excellence is in jeopardy. This is not primarily personal criticism (which can devolve into arbitrary, emotional Ad Hominem attack) but criticism of all of the abstract things which make up our lives as human beings.
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The virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much as we possess.
Henry David Thoreau
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cant get over how PERFECT that killingblow was to Vader. "then my friend is truly dead... goodbye, Darth."
obiwan is a mf General of War. he didnt strike him down physically but he obliterated Vader into tiny, shattered pieces with that one perfectly crafted line. engineered. precise. piercing.
you wanna go that way? say goodbye to me forever.
unwinding, unspooling Vader like a surgical thread, leaving him there wheezing, gasping, dying.
alone.
alone.
alone.
screaming his name. frantic. pathetic. pieces.
that's obiwan turning his back on Darth, obiwan daring anakin to come home.
that is how obiwan says i love you this time.
to his anakin, and himself.
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