sari
- this hits hard: People will be right about what’s wrong, but wrong about how to fix it
Episode #188 Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han
ambition and
This was illuminating. My notes:
Negative power is the way people have been control for most of human history.
Negative power means being controlled by prohibition or limitation, telling people you can’t do this or that. Today, people are controlled through positive power. Positive power tells you you can be whatever you want, you’re in charge, so you have no limitations. As long as you can put your head down, focus, grind, achieve your short term goals, set new ones and achieve those.
Authenticity is an ad campaign of neo-liberalism. It's a self absorbed nightmare. People now have to define themselves through themselves without any sort of help from the outside. Everyone is their own little personal project. Everything we learn is not just learning anymore. It's an investment in ourselves. Everything is about mentally optimizing yourself working, producing more efficiently with your mind.
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Christopher Tin: Live at Cadogan Hall - Waloyo Yamoni
things to come back to when i'm feeling meh and songs of the moment
this song! something about it reminds me of all the ways in which life is beautiful.