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Human Connections
I wish, sometimes, briefly, I wasn’t so aware, informed, sensitive, self important, arrogant, compassionate, and (obviously) emotional. It is very painful to be a highly sensitive person. I’ve spent many years actually trying to dumb/numb/slow myself down.
I call this the high price of awareness.
I wonder what the experience of life is like for all t
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Creating and blaming an enemy is a vicious, inescapable spiral of doom. It made me blind to my personal agency. It stunted my ability to act on my own behalf.
Instead of feeling empowered, I came to believe that if THEY don’t change, I can’t be happy. I’m stuck, and it’s their fault. I must sit here and tap tap tap at them until they acquiesce and hand me happiness.
This paradigm is the lifeblood of social media.
Without it, the addictive dopamine/adrenaline high attained from reading and replying to our side and attacking their side doesn’t have the same payoff. But it’s terrible for us.
Truth!
I shit you not.
We do it to ourselves.
You actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more
How does one prepare for a reorganization of the way we organize as a society? Culture? Nation? Species? How many OTHERs will be lost in the process?
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more
Uuuuggghhh.
Old Man Talks on Substack
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The Loneliness No One Talks About
No one warns you about the loneliness that comes with growing.
The silence when old friendships stop fitting, but new ones haven’t formed.
The ache of outgrowing places, conversations, even versions of yourself.
Growth is beautiful, but it can also be isolating.
Keep growing anyway. You’ll find your kindred spirits.
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Don't make yourself small for anyone. Be the
awkward, funny, intelligent, beautiful little weirdo that you are. Don't hold back.
Weird it out.
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awkward, funny, intelligent, beautiful little weirdo that you are. Don't hold back.
Weird it out.
@womenofthefuture.co