
Brian Eno: ‘Sex, drugs, art… they’re all ways of surrendering’

To be unknowing means to acknowledge that – like Socrates before the Oracle – neither we nor anybody else knows exactly what is going on; and to be humbled and at peace with that understanding and thereby with everything else. Technologies of control and domination become instead technologies of cooperation, mutual empowerment and liberation.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

When you contribute your point of view to the world, others can see it. It’s refracted through their filter and distributed again. This process is continuous and ongoing. Taken all together, it creates what we experience as reality. Every work, no matter how trivial it may seem, plays a role in this greater cycle. The world continually unfolds. Nat
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