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Perhaps that is why so many of us have half-done tasks on our to-do lists and half-read books on our bedside tables, scroll through Instagram while simultaneously semi-watching Netflix, and swipe between apps and tabs endlessly, from when we first open our eyes until we finally fall asleep. One uncomfortable explanation for why so many aspects of
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all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones
quirine brouwerquirinebrouwer.substack.comHow to Make a Living as an Artist
essays.fnnch.comI believe I am being confronted with this impossible task: making a perfect idea into a perfect creation . What I fail to recognise is that the idea only seems perfect precisely because it has no counterpart in reality .
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from the Rolling Stones: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-disappearance-jon-ganz-1235438552/
we talk about ‘Being Here’, about the ‘present moment’ as if they are particular destinations; places we can happen upon through the right way of doing. but, the present moment is a full body revelation, the antithesis of doing. ‘Here’ isnt a specific space, it’s a capacity and we have to build an endurance for being with it. just like any other... See more
pax (they/them) • my god is the present moment: the fallacy of enlightenment
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more