While I'm temperamentally uncomfortable with liberal government, I think it's time to take the opportunities it presents seriously. I take the Liberal party positions as coming out of the idea that to have a self is an achievement, and to maintain the autonomy of that self is the foundation of all serious and responsible living. They see a lack of self -centeredness as a lack, an immaturity, and I have to say at least for myself they are (would be - I don't believe I've ever come up at Liberal party HQ) right.
While a lack of self-centredness is a lack and having a self is good, having a bad self is conceivable - the self should be defined by negativity about the right things. There are some things it is appropriate to be negative about - laziness is probably worst.
I'm going to take this three years as a season for self-serving industriousness, for taking opportunities to work and profit seriously.
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