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I wonder if the founding fathers conceived of the possibility that the U.S. government could be controlled by a recently established small Polish-Ukrainian colony in the Near East.

‘Who am I when there’s nothing to become?’

Not enough of you have internalized that Marcus Aurelius took opium daily.

Are some thoughts a burden? Burden because of the heavy self judgement. Burden because you can’t spill it out to your friend, family or beloved? What will happen when you notice them from a pov without any judgement. Krishnamurti has an answer but will take practice to arrive.

Getting closer with every update

'there is no need to be sad'

it will probably takes decades to realise moral of the story you memorised as child were a life hack all along

a legion of people have made morally grey as a societal norm and then they do morally dark things in its garb. choosing virtue when its the hard thing to do will always be the most admirable quality that one can have. history loves to admire them but shits on them in present

Hmmm

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. -- Dr. Carl Sagan

As long as humans exist, gambling, drugs, and sex will always, always sell. Doomscrolling is the perfect blend of the three. Gamble if the next reel will be good. Sex because of thirst traps. And the whole action of swiping up in a way reinforces brain like a drug.

Why is Industry so peak?

Yearning to be seen

Bad fiction gives you what you want to hear. Good fiction helps you to be a better human. Great fiction demolishes the ceiling you didn't know you had. This isn't objective. It's a map of where you at right now.

you don't achieve that. you can't borrow your way there. it either happens through genuine encounter or it doesn't happen at all

> taste without lived experience behind it is just attribution. so taste evolves, yes. but not toward a more refined you. toward a quieter one. less performed, less accumulated, more in touch with what's actually in front of you

> what people call taste on the timeline is mostly the opposite. borrowing the films your favorite person watched, music that signals you're serious, the books that qualify you as a certain kind of person. that's not taste, that's the ego using culture as construction material

> David Lynch film, Dostoevsky or Bukowski if actually landed, they didn't add something to you. they removed something. a little noise, a little defensiveness, a little false certainty. you came out slightly more transparent to your own experience

> taste is a relationship you have with things music, film, design, writing, thoughts anything made from a blank canvas > the real question isn't whether your taste is good or bad. it's whether what you consume is working on you or just decorating you