Now, why are you choosing such an unfree way to live?
You are using the term “desire for recognition,” but what you are really saying is that you don’t want to be disliked by anyone.
YOUTH: Who does? There’s no one anywhere who’d go so far as to actually want to be disliked.
PHILOSOPHER: Exactly. It is true that there is no person who wishes to be disliked.
But look at it this way: What should one do to not be disliked by anyone?
There is only one answer: It is to constantly gauge other people’s feelings while swearing loyalty to all of them.
If there are ten people, one must swear loyalty to all ten.
When one does that, for the time being one will have succeeded in not being disliked by anyone.
But at this point, there is a great contradiction looming. One swears loyalty to all ten people out of the single-minded desire to not be disliked.
This is like a politician who has fallen into populism and begun to make impossible promises and accept responsibilities that are beyond him.
Naturally, his lies will come to light before long. He will lose people’s trust and turn his own life into one of greater suffering.
And, of course, the stress of continual lying has all kinds of consequences. Please grasp this point.
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