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You discover your actual audience: not the people who need you to be different, but the ones who recognize themselves in your untranslated truth. This isn't about finding "your tribe"—that suggests a pre-existing community waiting to be discovered. It's about creating resonance through specificity.
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📌 BECOME PRONOID
Pronoia describes a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia.
Whereas a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against them, a person experiencing pronoia believes that the world around them conspires to do them good.... See more
Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties. The stories we tell ourselves about the world and the foregone conclusions with which we cork the fount of possibility are the supreme downfall of our consciousness. They are also the inevitable cost of survival, of navigating a vast and complex reality... See more
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Another week, another set of horoscopes! On Thursday afternoon, Mars retrograde ends after a punishing ten weeks of roadblocks, accidents, and conflict. If plans you made during this period went sideways, if your confidence went missing, if you seemed to be in a constant state of fight or flight, rough astrological conditions deserve at least some... See more
instagram.comIf we can reframe the psyche as something that continues evolving beyond death, as Freke argues, we can have a dramatic cultural paradigm shift. This seems to be happening at this precise moment in our evolution.⁸
The Leading Edge • At the Leading Edge of a New Worldview
From an interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace in 1996.
DFW: Oh—the reason why I think you oughta do a book about TV, is this problem is not gonna go away. I don’t know about you, but in ten or fifteen years, we’re gonna have virtual reality pornography. Now, if I don’t develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure
... See moreBecome a crack in the network that undermines the great towers of establishment.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Weirdness is eroticism’s essence. To be weird is to be creative, taboo, present, complex, intimate, fully alive, expanding in places of contraction, in a state of being created, novel, individuating, vital, authentic, subversive, unique, unbridled, magnetic and therefore repelling. Iconic. The people you most admire are likely those who stayed... See more
Nairy Fstukh • your weirdness is erotic sovereignty
The Journey Back From Hades: Reclaiming America Through Positive Disintegration - Third Factor
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