imaginary peers, a human strategy, aphorism 407

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I have created for myself imaginary peers.  Every act is brought before their judgment.  It is an involuntary, perhaps vain, daydream ... but it is functional.  I have control over the choice of these imaginary peers ... and their banishment.

This may sound childish — it certainly appears childish — but I surround myself with the pictures of new peers and read only the works of these new peers.  To banish, I only need tear down a picture and avoid all contact with any hint of their existence.  The process is slow and more easily reversed than advanced, but it works.


At the end of the twentieth century, do we still have to say it?  Conscience is plastic.  

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