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The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also allows idiot intellectuals to convert people into idiot followers more quickly and easily than ever before.
The result... is life in 2026.
The result... is life in 2026.
Mark Manson • Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots
In both myth and theory, Eros is the same force: the spark that brings aliveness out of inertia. To live erotically is to stay attuned to that rhythm, to let the energy that animates the world also animate you. But that kind of vitality resists management, which is precisely why the modern world fears it.
The post-luxury status symbols I’ve outlined across this series - connected privacy, wasteful time, having children, niche expertise, creating community, quality sleep - all point to the same underlying desire: to reclaim what has been stolen and repackaged as luxury. The basics of human existence.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury status symbols #6: Quality Sleep
In Pascal’s Pensées, he writes “And how shall [man] be happy? By finding something to occupy him, that shall divert him, and prevent him from seeing himself what he is. For if he saw himself as he is, he would be miserable indeed.”
Most people want to be fit, most people aren’t.
Most people want to build a successful business, most people won’t.
Most people want to be the best version of themselves, most people aren’t.
Most people have dreams they want to fulfill, most people won’t.
Everyone wants to quit something, build something, be something, do something. Most people
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But don’t you understand, Amy? You’re wrong. Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person—sexual chemistry, let’s say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty—and you get to pick three of those things.
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the only thing sadder than not being a rich kid is being a Disney adult