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tags: #technologicallove/concepts
related notes: [[attachment]], [[fear]], [[pride]]
# essence
[[Specialness]] is the belief that some part of the world is somehow different than other parts in a fundamental way. This often comes in the form of a belief that something is uniquely important. We often believe, at great cost, that we ourselves are special.
Nothing is [[specialness|special]] and everything is [[specialness|special]].
# expansion
Something not being special does not mean that it is not valuable, important, beautiful, magical, or unique. It just means that it does not have an intrinsic quality of being "different".
Specialness is tied to [[ego]] and to the belief that the [[self]] is more important than the others or the whole.
# example
[[zionist specialness]]