how to respond to the fact of being an outsider & could never be seen as authentic? there are 2 accessible response options, with a good dose of Nietzsche.
1st is to recognize rejection & follow its consequences. even if the group rejects you, this doesn't necessarily mean that you're not part of the group. absorb the rejection & wonder where to fit in. the world is a mix of ethnicities & nationalities, & it's a typical human desire to belong. of course, there are inclusion & exclusion from groups, but these groupings aren't important tho. anyone can be an outsider by any classification, & it's actually in the outsider position that we're able to observe & think.
2nd option is to impose yourself as the standard & measure others by it. stop accepting others as role models. fashion yourself, knowing that no one could ever be 100% perfect. stop accepting the low & impossible standards of others around you, if you're too different for their standards to make any sense in life as an individual with dignity. this is a more complex way of saying that you have to just be yourself.
there are one-dimensional social standards for what it is to be a person in our particular philosophical universe. such standards display a misreading of how the modern world operates. each of us has a name & a face & a set of dreams, wishes, & desires. we have our own set of motivations & sources of pride. not allowing for these dreams & motivations & desires to be translated into social mechanisms that afford them the chance to be realized is catastrophic.
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