Catch-22 is not a bug.

[Parki]

It's a feature.
The funny part: to understand that catch-22 is not a bug, but a feature, you already need to understand that catch-22 is not a bug, but a feature.

[Parki]

Is this look interesting only to me, or just I posted it in the wrong time and it got lost in other posts?

[Bob Seeker]

Give a more specific example, maybe relate it to a concrete aspect of life, that helps us connect to it.

[tsuki]

More often than not, a catch-22 is a by-product of a constrained perspective trying to squeeze/frame a broader perspective into itself.

For example, if you frame understanding as an emergent property of language, then you cannot explain how communication occurs. That is because within this perspective, language had to be communicated to you when you were learning it.

Similarly, if you view your limited self as your true self, then you must fear and defend yourself, thus reinforce separation. The only way out of this is to experience death and view knowledge from not-knowing.

Edited July 1, 2021 by tsuki

[Nahm]

It’s like when you post something insightful but no one is interested. Or maybe when everyone is interested but the content isn’t insightful. Not sure 

[SamC]

On 2021-06-24 at 8:45 PM, Parki said:

It's a feature.
The funny part: to understand that catch-22 is not a bug, but a feature, you already need to understand that catch-22 is not a bug, but a feature.

Yeah and catch - 22 makes us go around in circles and bang ourselves out of it eventually. It's a way of guiding us home.

If you have low self esteem for example and try to change it  - the catch 22 is that you belive that you can go the opposite way and pretend that you don't have it, yet as long as you have low self esteem, you can't.

The problem is the solution which means that you just have to trancend the problem entirely and pursue real growth where you just don't give a fuck, and in order for that to happen - a part of you must die! You must go full circle! You must be okey with having low self esteem and when you're okey with it - you don't have low self esteem.

@Parki

Edited July 1, 2021 by SamC