making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
sari and
making sublime
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we'll need a place to get grounded when AI agents take over. a place we can go to for pure humanity. getting grounded with a sea of human thoughts and ideas will feel like a vacation.
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Robert Greene On The Concept Of "The Sublime"
youtube.comhumans are social animals, and we try to keep ourselves inside a kind of circle and mentally inhabit an enclosed space.
well, the sublime is what lies just outside that circle. other ideas about the world. other ways of thinking, other ways of feeling. and it’s transformative.
because humans don't naturally like limits. when your mother tells you, don't do that, that's exactly what you want to do.
the word sublime, from the Latin means up to the threshold. up to the threshold of a door. and looking through that door on the other side is a sublime experience. so when you take a hike and you're feeling like a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, and you're feeling your heart beating and you're feeling this rush of adrenaline, you're so excited, you're experiencing a sublime emotion. and that sublime emotion is a kind of an expansiveness as opposed to the closed spirit that we normally have.
and it's liberating and it's exciting.
we create our own reality. we have imaginations. we can imagine new kinds of political structures. we can imagine new kinds of social ways of interacting. we can create instead of just passively consuming what other people give us.
The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
Billy Oppenheimerbillyoppenheimer.com
a note from a believer:
Sari, I remember that as a kid, I always knew I was different, and wanted to show it. I’d tie my Converse shoelaces in the shape of a star, I’d zig when others zagged, I’d take pride in being Mexican in my mostly White North Carolina small town, and this all showed through in my work. I was Me. And somewhere along the way,
... See moreEvery time I fail a spaced repetition review for a card which I remember thinking was almost too trivial to write down, I become more convinced that everything I read without making cards for is a waste of time.
Dwarkesh Patelx.com