My beard is NOT fucking ironic

in my first intro video i said (more to myself than to you) that i wasn't going to talk about beards or pipes. but i couldn't help myself. I'm more talking about what they mean in social consciousness. I don't think any of us like to be overly simplified down to stereo types. but complexity takes a lot of brain power. fortunately for myself, it seems i'm rich enough in that. and it may have something to do with all my leisure time growing up; that i had enough time to daydream, not needing to go to school. and hopefully i can take the best of that while avoiding the worst of it; i'm always one blind step away from falling into that deep hole of bitter despair, but my soul is stronger than all that. my ultimate goal (and perhaps destiny) is to become a paragon. stop me if i start sounding grandiose or self absorbed. but my ultimate humility stems from a place of aspiring to be bold. we'd all like to earn the trust of those around us, and i don't think self deprecation is the wisest way of going about that. perhaps in a future video i can go through what my personal criteria are for what constitutes true humility. it's never as easy as people want to make it out to be; it involves eating lots of shit and taking harsh criticisms; shattering the lying mirror of your muddled self perceptions and faulty narratives and looking at your reflection from the lake of truth.

i should probably pierce further into the Dunning-Cruger effect. that dealt with delusions of grander, right?