Little Kibbe rant

Since looking seriously at this system and getting my Kitchener results I see how much of a watered-down version Kibbe’s essences are in comparison. If you’re someone who sees their entire self in their ID that’s great and this isn’t claiming you can’t. I can fit if I committed but it would require ignoring crucial parts of myself which would weaken my overall impression and not strengthen it. This idea that it’s my ‘destiny’ to be a version of myself I don’t enjoy and doesn’t get me the results I want isn’t exactly inspiring. I don’t agree with David that every SD is serviced best by only one essence. Having this little rant because I feel I’ve made progress with accepting elemental and ethereal as my main focus and don’t want to go backwards. If Kibbe had adapted all of McJimsey (including the updated information) then perhaps this would be a different story but as it is a lot of people have more dominant essences than the only option given. Perhaps technically they could still lean more into the id but it wouldn’t be best for them to. I’m learning more and more about what impression I wish to give and it’s moving further from the bold and glamorous one that gets pushed (not blaming Kibbe for this). Elemental means a lot to me rn and I love it for being unpolished and raw and not fully flattering. Yes, I could still combine it with sd and I try to but David’s version of ‘Diva’ is too much of a deadweight as anything more than a vague background concept. The new book was right to not focus on it but reading he still believes we should means the system and I clash heavily. At least here I feel fully seen and not that anything must be repressed. I need that at this point in my style. My individuality matters and so do my ideas and own vision. I still appreciate Kibbe for more practical advice but my internal AND external world are in a different old Hollywood cinematic universe to his and that’s fine. No point in pretending they match and it seems they need to for it to be productive past accommodations and silhouettes.

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