Words and Expressions that Leap into consciousness
Compersion
This was a new term to me a few months ago. As it’s not in widespread use, it’s a little hard to apply a contextual meaning.
Here is one that I’ve been happy to adopt
The word compersion is loosely defined as the opposite of jealousy. Instead of feeling upset or threatened > when your partner romantically or sexually interacts with another person, you feel a sense of happiness for > them.
For me, it’s a term and an emotional framework I’d like to bring into my Competition vs. Cooperation vernacular.
I think it has an application in my Winners and Losers thinking.
Strange Loops
Reading Douglas Hofstadter led to my intoxication with this term.
Internecine
An adjective for our times, describing the kind of conflict that is destructive to both/all sides of a conflict.
“The Internecine Internet”
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behaviour. But ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behaviour.
Speaks for itself in my view.