I will now try to make a point that de-voted means deprived from the right to vote. And if find this idea outrageous, I recommend you stop reading, because what I am going to say about perfection is even more so.
Let me start by listing them - all the words, starting with de-, I can think of. Demo, demob, dedication, decarbonizing (put here with the sole purppose to get me free hits :), decision, decoupling, demagogy, democracy, degradation, destruct, delusion, depict, depot, destroy, decade, delay, debug, dextrose, decaf. Enough.
Decoupling, debug, decaf, decarbonixation are obvious. Meaning that we want to avoid whatever comes after the de-. Democracy at first glance looks like an attempt to avoid mockery and judging by the current state of affairs in the world is spot on. Decison tells me that something have ceased and we have to move it in a direction, to keep it rolling to get it back in motion. And I like it a lot with this meaning. In this line of thoughts devote has no choice but to be the lack of abililty to vote. No mens to express your free will. Is it then still free? Was it free ever at all?
Have you been on any flip side of the urge to perfection? Either "You are doing things great, I wish all the rest were like you" or "Look at that person. They are absolutely and indisputably perfect, try talking to them, maybe you can benefit from being exposed to some perfection" ("when you obviously SUCK" left unspoken, but transpiring loud between the lines). I have been on both and don't see any benefit of any. At the end of hte day (also in the mornig for that matter) what a person wants is to come across. To leave a sign so that otehrs know that you were there. To develop. To grow. This is where other people can can the monsterous image of the ultimate judge of what matters for you. And if others will like you better when you are like someone, you will try to stretch and outgrow yourself. If you can escape the thought that you are not good enough. This thought is an agile and flexible purchaser, good at getting through confined spaces, keyholes and shut doors. I wish you luck with liberating yourself from it.
Perfect vacations are my favourite example. People with glued smiles on talking about planes on time, silent and behaving kids, friendly staff all along, sea water at the right temperature (if you swim), the best drink you ever had (if you enjoy that and don't swim immediately after) and dancing the night away (unless you are too shy). And I yawn.
The main thing I dislike with perfection is that it leaves no room for the imagination. Sets a frame of rules and expectations and keeps your score. Which is dreading. Especially during a holiday, when detachment from your casual, conditioned self is desperately needed.
In other words - when you see something wrong, it ignites a desire to fix it to make it better, more useful, more beautiful. When you see perfect you consider deinfect your hands, in the rare occasion you dare toch it. Because you are afraid not to corrupt it.
Which inevitably makes it sterile. Unactionable. Useless. Depriving you from your right to vote. To choose. To create.
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