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		supertofu on April 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empow... Agreed. It's lazy and dismissive advice. I wish it wasn't such a trope in children's entertainment. Most people don't have a fixed sense of self until adulthood. And wise adults understand that there's no self at all.

BizarroLand on April 19, 2022 | [–]

I reinterpreted it as "be the you you would be if you could control who you are", but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue

8bitsrule on April 17, 2022 | [–]

>wise adults understand that there's no self at all

Except, of course, for Carl Jung. And Polonius in Hamlet. But that's all.

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