Even if you didn't believe, it was clear that she did and it was, as Armitage said, a testament to the power and persistence of the stories we are told and those we tell ourselves Ideal (BBC3), the tale of shut-in drug dealer Moz Johnny Vegass) began its sixth series last night with Moz apparently being decapitated by PC Phil.
We are creating an ideal version of ourselves.
That our electronic avatars are an ideal version of ourselves, nicer, cleverer, more polite, more attractive, more interesting, photoshopped.
I like to call it "insert personality here," for it's as if we're all waiting to be remade into someone else's ideal version of ourselves.
The purpose of the Principle of Hope is to try to give sense to our living at a distance from ourselves, thus the utopian ideal par excellence is to rediscover ourselves and rediscover the sense of ourselves in a collective entity, not in the solitary sense.
As human beings we like to think a lot (sometimes a bit too much) and start imagining all sorts of stories for ourselves, particularly ideal situations that we would like to be in.
Perhaps the formal account of perfection at IId6 and later at IIIp11 give Spinoza a means of reformulating the idea of perfection as a model of human nature in a way which reconciles the two senses of the term: the ideal we set before ourselves will be a person who possesses the greatest possible power of action.
When we let go of our "ideal" partner, we allow ourselves to fully see, accept and appreciate the person we are dating.
We don't win people to liberal ideals by giving ourselves a leave of absence from the argument.
But let's not beat around the bush, let's not claim lofty ideals, or attach ourselves to idealistic isms.
