there is also a world where we fall into the trap that TS Eliot describes “where is the life we have lost in living? where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Neil Hilborn once said “Isolation is not safety, it is death. If no one knows you’re alive, you aren’t... I’m not saying you’ll find the meaning of life in other people. I’m saying other people are the life to which you provide the meaning to.”

We are merely a moment in the Milky Way Galaxy, but we forget that. As Aldos Huxley writes in The Doors of Perception -

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to b

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There is something called “being chronically online” where people almost see themselves as the main character in some big game - life isn’t about other people, it’s about watching people - and they attempt to exempt themselves from criticism, live through others parasocially, and throw stones in the online arena.

The laziest way to create meaning in your life is to find an enemy.

We are going to have to get a lot weirder and do more human stuff, as Kevin Roose wrote. There is so much to do, so much to see, and perhaps language might not be enough to describe the world that we are in. Like even writing this piece I feel gaps in what I want to say and what you might be thinking.

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes” as Nathalie Robin said.

The money that goes into betting is money that is desperate, and that is the most angry money of all.

There’s actually a thesis on the relationship between language, men and knitting by Angela Desmarais1 . Men used to be super into knitting in the 1200’s - in fact, there used to be knitting guilds that you had to train 6 years to get into (of course there were).