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Old 04-26-2023, 01:05 AM
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Well, some people would say "shame" is the opposite of pride because some people insist pride can be a positive quality, but the positive quality of pride such as having pride in ones accomplishments or pride in ones appearance it only an imperfect reflection of the Pride which is titrated between arrogance ignorance weakness and knowledge, but we will entertain the idea that shame is it opposite and perform a dialectical analysis on shame to show this is simply not the case and is, rather, a post-hoc rationalization of the ego to protect the more pervasive negative characteristics of pride.

How is shame exemplified?

When we perceive a person as shameful, we perceive them as lacking in knowledge (ignorance) and we see the as exemplifying failure, which brings us to the concept of "sin". "Sin" by definition means "missing the mark" which is synonymous with failure so these two sub-forms; sin and ignorance are how shame is exemplified, but how is shame projected onto others?

When we see someone we care for making a mistake such as our child who fallson the ground doing some goofy maneuver we have a tendency to look away, not acknowledging the "Humiliation" of their mistake, giving them the psychological space necessary to stole that shame away under the guise of them thinking no one saw it, or we counter that shame by encouraging them, but the concept of "humiliation" is what's at play here. And when we are "shaming" someone we are projecting humiliation onto them for their lack of knowing better(ignorance), and or we, like the prideful person projects our perspective of their "weakness" onto them.

So the axiom of shame looks like a pyramidal structure that resembles this axiom;

Ignorance---------\|/---------Weakness
--------------------Shame------------------
Sin(failure)--------/|\--------Humiliation

And if we butt pride and shame up against each other we see they share two bases:. Ignorance and Weakness;

Arrogance---------\|/--------Knowledge
---------------------Pride-------------------
Ignorance---------/|\---------Weakness
Ignorance---------\|/---------Weakness
--------------------Shame------------------
Sin(failure)--------/|\--------Humiliation
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