Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
The distinction between a deeper “emotional” belief and a more surface-level “intellectual” one is important. If you take someone with chronic self-doubt, you could easily get them to rehearse the statement “I am capable,” but the question is whether they actually believe that. When you emotionally believe something, it’s no longer something you’re... See more
Purva-Paksha refers to the thoughts of predecessors. There’s a prejudice where all Indian Philosophers, anything worth saying has already been said done in Vedas. Series of thinkers in the past, conflict, their views form a ladder. Truth can be seen by climbing the ladder (cute metaphor)
cumulative process (fu rand)
‘Intellectual Tradition is a
... See more“The views of the preceding sages have not been polluted, but only refined”
Critique doesn't render previous inquiry useless. Those previous views allow us to ascend the ladder and further the inquiry. It’s not something to be discarded.
So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to
... See moreOlivia Laing • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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Problems Sublime solves—at least for me
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