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"Syndrome" Syndrome: or the Fallacy of "Special"
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4992446" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I think you are correct in this at least. Helen is using 'special' in a way different than everyone else, however, Helen has got the got in the trap of using everyone's 'specialness' (in her sense) to excuse conformity and mediocrity. </p><p></p><p>The problem is that in the world Dash lives in, "everyone is special" means everyone is equally deserving of accolades for everything. Bob complains about this, "It's not a graduation. He's moving from the fourth grade to the fifth grade...They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity." </p><p></p><p>Helen is actually in the wrong on this conversation, as she later realizes on the island. She's been requiring her kids to be something other than 'great' and celebrating only their mediocrity (and trying to get Bob to do the same), and in doing so, you hasn't been helping them. She tries to put the blame for this on Bob, by saying that its his emotional hang up that is involved, but really its hers. Bob's hang up is his unwillingness to accept help, not his desire for his son to be 'great'. Helen is too scared of the consequences of letting her children risk greatness to actually let them be special. The result is that they are crippled by her desire to protect them.</p><p></p><p>Everyone being "special" and everyone being "equal" doesn't mean that some people aren't plan "better" than others. There are people out there that are smarter, more charismatic, stronger, faster, more atheletic, more knowledgable etc. etc. than I am and who would beat me in any contest and who probably would be more suited to solving any problem we might need solved. They are better than me. However, their superiority doesn't infringe upon my dignity and value, nor does it give them to right to oppress my dignity and value. However, them merely doing what they are capable of doing isn't oppressing me. I can't blame them for my envy or jealousy, nor can I try to take from them what they have because it isn't "fair". All I can expect is the right to be as extraordinary as I can be without them trying to take that from me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4992446, member: 4937"] I think you are correct in this at least. Helen is using 'special' in a way different than everyone else, however, Helen has got the got in the trap of using everyone's 'specialness' (in her sense) to excuse conformity and mediocrity. The problem is that in the world Dash lives in, "everyone is special" means everyone is equally deserving of accolades for everything. Bob complains about this, "It's not a graduation. He's moving from the fourth grade to the fifth grade...They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity." Helen is actually in the wrong on this conversation, as she later realizes on the island. She's been requiring her kids to be something other than 'great' and celebrating only their mediocrity (and trying to get Bob to do the same), and in doing so, you hasn't been helping them. She tries to put the blame for this on Bob, by saying that its his emotional hang up that is involved, but really its hers. Bob's hang up is his unwillingness to accept help, not his desire for his son to be 'great'. Helen is too scared of the consequences of letting her children risk greatness to actually let them be special. The result is that they are crippled by her desire to protect them. Everyone being "special" and everyone being "equal" doesn't mean that some people aren't plan "better" than others. There are people out there that are smarter, more charismatic, stronger, faster, more atheletic, more knowledgable etc. etc. than I am and who would beat me in any contest and who probably would be more suited to solving any problem we might need solved. They are better than me. However, their superiority doesn't infringe upon my dignity and value, nor does it give them to right to oppress my dignity and value. However, them merely doing what they are capable of doing isn't oppressing me. I can't blame them for my envy or jealousy, nor can I try to take from them what they have because it isn't "fair". All I can expect is the right to be as extraordinary as I can be without them trying to take that from me. [/QUOTE]
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