life apathy
I truly believe we are headed for a new type of spiritual crisis with the devices we have. Put as directly as possible, I believe it’s a dopamine crash. We are strung out daily for our dopamine fixes, and we need to present serious alternatives.
Reggie James • Crying in the Garden ~ Closing Eternal
think Mars is actually an opportunity to reorient our economy around, uh, fluid and sort of ever-changing identity, and the removal of identity as a fixed construct. I actually think that that is a more abundant economy than the one we're in now because we have to think about how uh, how much creative um, restriction there is due to something not
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This is the kind of restriction I feel that people have on themselves today
This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Is this the manifesto for maas?
The thing about explosions, is that the force IS flattening.
People talk about cultural explosions like it's some diverse thing. NO! WRONG! It's a flattening thing. So much gets produced at once, it completely flattens everything.
People talk about cultural explosions like it's some diverse thing. NO! WRONG! It's a flattening thing. So much gets produced at once, it completely flattens everything.
I think I probably philosophically disagree with the statement that we've destroyed Earth. But this is about the mirror; this is about thinking larger and creating images that will solve these things as byproducts. If you fundamentally disagree with that perception, then there’s kind of like nowhere to go, right conversationally between us. But if
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“Why are we in all these conflicts? Because the images y'all make suck. That's the youth culture answer for you. The images y'all make suck. Marge is a better image, and it's gonna solve these things in a far more interesting way.'“
Reggie James
We can't write off the danger of complacency, growing rigidity, imprisonment by our own comfortable habits and opinions. Look around you. How many people whom you know well -- people even younger than yourselves --are already trapped in fixed attitudes and habits.
pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things
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A famous paragraph from John Gardner that was back to him in a rather heartbreaking way.
"A man wrote to me from Colorado saying that his 20 year-old daughter had been killed in an auto accident some weeks before and that she was carrying in her billfold a paragraph from a speech of mine. He said he was grateful because the paragraph -- and the fact that she kept it close to her -- told him something he might not otherwise have known about her values and concerns. I can't imagine where or how she came across the paragraph, but here it is:"
the real disease of the Western world is the idea of the true self. I think the true self is kind of, it's the sort of idea that is foundational to the current consumerist economy that we're in, which is basically the carrot on the end of the stick. You know, as soon as we might consume this thing, we get slightly closer to our idea of what we want
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Nothing excites me culturally anymore. Not really.