digital garden
But what if you’re under the influence of bad systems? What if we all are? What if we take a minute to laugh at how hard we defend our right to want things when we can barely explain why we want them in the first place, beyond “I like this”? Can we deconstruct those wants in a non-judgy but curious sort of way? Or maybe delight in the absurdity of... See more
You're Not Bad, You're Just Influenced That Way
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Bed of Procrustes
“I picked the cotton and I carried it to market and I built the railroads under someone else’s whip.”
bea • The Death of the Public Intellectual
We’re all participants in the systems around us and complicit in their consequences even if we didn’t intend them.
Seth Godin • This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life)
“If we purchase the commodity we participate in the crime. The slave dealer, the slave holder, and the slave driver, are virtually agents of the consumer, and may be considered as employed and hired by him to procure the commodity.”
Jermaine Fowler • The Consumption Ritual
The answer to how to approach your twenties lies between Plath and Didion. Everything you do is irrevocable, because time is finite, which means your choices matter. So you have to choose a fig. You cannot sit “in the crotch of this fig tree starving to death.” But choosing one fig does not cause all the others to instantly fall from the tree. If... See more
Dialectic: dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument.
Examples: I am strong AND vulnerable