cages or wings - which do you prefer?
let’s find some serendipity on the internet
thinking in categories would interfere with my ability to freely pattern-match
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
under capitalism, we all do live on a spectrum of captivity, with access to social and physical and intellectual stimuli unequally distributed. And thus we live on a spectrum of forced introspection, in which we ruminate on our own lives excessively because we do not have adequate access to external stimuli.
P.E. Moskowitz • A Culture of Introspective Captivity
Popular culture seems to agree with this view. Morning routines, writing routines, exercise routines—these are the blueprints of modern self-actualization, shared online one after another for a perpetually searching public. We study them like clues that may lead us to the correct way to be. The correct way to repeat ourselves.
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