everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them; they are waiting for you to send them an email; they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.
Kevin Kelly • Tweet
I first wrote about Breach in 2020, and again in my book. It’s the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our projections, hopes, fantasies, and violent urges. Some of these become archetypal, turning into myths and memes that evolve to take on a life of their own... See more
Alexander Beiner • Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and the Age of Breach
Yin is allowing energy to flow where it will, without interference.
Yang is driving energy where it otherwise wouldn’t go.
River Kenna • Yin, Yang, Mistakes, Metis
“A conversation has a spirit of its own,” Gadamer writes, “and the language in which it is conducted bears its own truth within it.” This insight directly challenges information-transfer models of communication. Language isn’t just a vehicle for pre-formed thoughts; it’s the medium through which thinking itself happens. Or as Soleio writes, “Knowle... See more
A Philosophy of Conversation
Only dead things are certain. Everything that is alive dances in different degrees of uncertainty.
from laura cincera on twitter - tweet