Standards - what are yours?

Compared to the normal popn this is good. Compared to my athletic social circles, this is poor.

Corollary: some pple think $300k income a year is rich, a billionaire would think that is poor - they earn more from the interest on their interest.
There are relative standards and *absolute* standards; if you have absolute standards in a world of relative standards you are seem as obsessed, weird, orthorexic - but being judged by people with no absolute standards is as significant as a fart in a hurricane.
To have absolute standards in anything you have to create a force-field around you, as the entire environment and its agents are trying to turn you into a mediocre half-human.

Mediocre half-humans can't understand absolute standards....
...they lap up all the sh*t delivered to them and are convinced it's abnormal not to.

Your standards are your future; do you go with the flow of normal society?

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