Life advises

[matrixmann]

Famous quotes - who really knows they've been authored by the people they get attributed to?
Who can really say it's that what they meant? That what they thought?
And - who can say if they weren't a bit naive and really that wise?
Who knows at all if they totally personally were that what they get regarded as these days - decades, centuries, even thousands of years after they have lived?

With what certainty do people use them for brightening up their lives?
Are they afraid of something?

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

The thing is that inspirational quotes as well as some stories like some kid gave his money he collected to some other kid who doesn't have money to buy food, so we are supposed to admire and do the same while the system is f#### up and nothing is cute about it, so it is mainly some neoliberal stuff.

[matrixmann]

Said this in the response above, to me it feels like manipulation often enough. Like downplaying things and not calling things what they truly are by the way they're designed or work.
Astoundingly, people also use quotes more in cases where they seemingly need tp prove to themselves that the world is alright and that all's not so hopeless as it seems.
Those who believe in a bad picture of the world, strangely they don't need as many quotes by famous people to support their worldview.
Something that I systematically noticed...