普遍与特殊

我靠自己学会的东西，到现在还记得。

一般人会在不同的故事（以及情境）中寻找相同点，高人会在相似的故事（以及情境）中寻找不同点。

要理解普遍与特殊之间的区别，可以考虑一下，有些人穿衣服是为了取悦某个特定的人，而不是所有人。

我们会不自觉地放大自己跟朋友的相同之处，跟陌生人的不同之处，跟敌人的相反之处。

许多人是如此缺乏独创精神，以至于他们需要去研究历史，寻找哪些错误是自己可以重复的。

人们认为有害的东西，肯定在某些情况下是有益的；认为有益的东西，肯定在某些情况下是有害的。系统越复杂，“普遍规律”的效应就越差。

傻瓜把特例当成惯例，书呆子把惯例当成特例，有些人两样都犯，聪明人两样都不犯。

你想做你自己，表现出独特性；群体（学校，规矩，工作，科技）则想让你做大众的一分子，完全没有自己的特点，哪怕得为此把你阉掉。

真正的爱是特殊性对普遍性的胜利，也是无条件对有条件的胜利。

THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR

What I learned on my own I still remember.

Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations), finer minds detect differences.

To grasp the difference between Universal and Particular, consider that some dress better to impress a single person than an entire crowd.

We unwittingly amplify commonalities with friends, dissimilarities with strangers, and contrasts with enemies.

Many are so unoriginal they study history to find mistakes to repeat.

There is nothing deemed harmful (in general) that cannot be beneficial in some particular instances, and nothing deemed beneficial that cannot harm you in some circumstances. The more complex the system, the weaker the notion of Universal.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

True love is the complete victory of the particular over the general, and the unconditional over the conditional.