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What Does Your Stupid Art Even Do for the World?
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The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be ... See more
Molly Mielke • callings
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of it: the world and its fuckedness; how I’m called to save it; as well as the fundamental hopelessness of this task. It seems I must become a happy, hopeless warrior.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Many people, me included, ask the question ‘what is it like to be me’ surprisingly infrequently. Asking yourself this, a lot, can stop you from falling into a bunch of varieties of self-destruction, and lead you towards a more self-authored and less self-inflicted life.
Sasha Chapin • Review: Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery
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The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j... See more
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection
