Comments on: The Competent Man http://thesimulacra.net/journal/2008/10/14/the-competent-man/ "Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." - Philip K Dick Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:32:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Edd http://thesimulacra.net/journal/2008/10/14/the-competent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-7879 Edd Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:59:09 +0000 http://thesimulacra.net/journal/?p=210#comment-7879 Awesome, I love that poem. I think the driving priority of the competent man has to be his moral integrity; there's no point having loads of skills if they're not going to be used to benefit the world. Awesome, I love that poem. I think the driving priority of the competent man has to be his moral integrity; there’s no point having loads of skills if they’re not going to be used to benefit the world.

]]> By: adam http://thesimulacra.net/journal/2008/10/14/the-competent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-7424 adam Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:41:11 +0000 http://thesimulacra.net/journal/?p=210#comment-7424 for a long time, without knowing others had written about this concept, this is the ideology i have been aiming for. i remember before my 18th talking to my parents in one of the rare times we sit down and discuss the future. they asked me what i wanted out of life, at the time i didn't have a clear idea of a career or a direction and so i thought about it for a minute and came back with 'everything'. as you said, the breadth of all human knowledge is so expansive that in order to know just a tiny bit in its entirety would take a lifetime. there is one aspect of being the Competant Person that i didn't notice listed but is more or less implied: personality. thinking back to it, this is described very well by Kipling in his poem 'If'. also it's important to me to point out that the imagery does conjure an image of a man. personally i see a man of the early 20th century, pipe in mouth striding across a field, and as such there does feel like theres a sexual bias. i do feel that being Competant is a subconcious goal of all humanity, but it doesn't just happen. it requires drive, will power, and the realisation that being Competant is not something to be lorded over others but used to help them. when i grow up i want to be Competant http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm for a long time, without knowing others had written about this concept, this is the ideology i have been aiming for. i remember before my 18th talking to my parents in one of the rare times we sit down and discuss the future. they asked me what i wanted out of life, at the time i didn’t have a clear idea of a career or a direction and so i thought about it for a minute and came back with ‘everything’.
as you said, the breadth of all human knowledge is so expansive that in order to know just a tiny bit in its entirety would take a lifetime.
there is one aspect of being the Competant Person that i didn’t notice listed but is more or less implied: personality. thinking back to it, this is described very well by Kipling in his poem ‘If’. also it’s important to me to point out that the imagery does conjure an image of a man. personally i see a man of the early 20th century, pipe in mouth striding across a field, and as such there does feel like theres a sexual bias.
i do feel that being Competant is a subconcious goal of all humanity, but it doesn’t just happen. it requires drive, will power, and the realisation that being Competant is not something to be lorded over others but used to help them.

when i grow up i want to be Competant

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

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