Jennis Kang
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Jennis Kang
Astrology as a branch of capitalism & fast fashion
saturnandhoney.substack.com
"Are you consuming or are you developing a relationship with what you have, read, and see?"
When I watch TikToks, I am holding the top right corner of the screen to fastforward the video, rapidly scanning its contents for what collection of mine to save it into for later, systematically extracting whatever I can take to get me to the next level, whether it’s a new hobby I should be doing or the new must have tiktok shop or amazon find that will finally help me get it together.
When I listen to the astrology forecast of my favorite podcast, I am rapidly scribbling down how the upcoming transits will effect my plans, writing down what to look out for like it’s scripture from God’s mouth, yet abandoning said notes for the rest of the month and setting sail onto the next drama of my life with only my own brute strength driving me.
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
The thing about avoidance is that it’s not a fear of commitment point blank so much as it’s an emotional anesthetizing of certain parts of the self that are required for deep self knowledge, & deep self knowledge is necessary for choosing compatible partners.
Heidi Priebe 🏃♀️ is in motionx.comThe tendency of people with ADD is to impulsively avoid painful experiences, which makes it much less likely for them to maintain focus on an area in which they have no natural gift. Therefore, these deficits are likely to be amplified instead of corrected.
Don Kerson • Getting Unstuck; Unravelling the Knot of Depression Attention and Trauma
At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Manson’s law of avoidance on them: The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.