Sean May
@darwinist420
Sean May
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
- what Krishna tells Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita:
As soon as you start down the slippery slope of doing things based on convention, you are diluting your independence and uniqueness, which is to say your reason for existing. Even the smallest things can start to bend you toward conformity.
Joel Cohen • Interview with Josh Tarasoff, Founder of Greenlea Lane Capital
Extinction Internet
Geert Lovink discusses the decline of internet culture, highlighting issues like entropy and platform dominance, while emphasizing the need for alternatives, degrowth, and a collective reimagining of digital spaces for a sustainable future.
networkcultures.org"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
--John Steinbeck
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
--John Steinbeck
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Here we see a really pivotal moment of change, when art must become something that does not make people uncomfortable, so that they will spend money. The kind of person who is expected to consume art is transformed in the mind of the producer. The people who might very possibly love being expanded by what they see are never given the chance.
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