Bradley McDevitt
@soupbone
Archetypal Scholar, Leadership Development Coach, Theater Nerd, Clown
Bradley McDevitt
thearchetype.substack.com
Physics may try its damnedest to instill in us existential dread at an incomprehensible universe, but biology will always be the most offensive science. For physics merely deals with the nature of reality, whereas biology contends with our own nature, and so it repeatedly runs up against wishful thinking about who we are. Biology forms the paramete... See more
“Now that we frame our experiences through the lens of external presentation, it’s much harder to figure out what we actually want as opposed to how we’d like to appear … This puts us at risk of potentially fragmenting our identities. We lose sight of what we actually feel and instead start to view ourselves from an outside perspective.”
-Darshita Goyal
Who is he that shall control me?
Why may not I act & speak & write & think
with entire freedom? What am I to the
Universe, or, the Universe, what
is it to me?
Why may not I act & speak & write & think
with entire freedom? What am I to the
Universe, or, the Universe, what
is it to me?
Emerson: Who is He that Shall Control Me?
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
-R. W. Emerson
cue for UX designers working on the development of new apps — anticipate the consequences of your creations and instead of adding fuel to the fire of addiction, bear in mind the ethical principles of designing the user experience.
Neuroaesthetics - semir zeki
Corruptio optimi pessima—the corruption of the best is the worst.
The Worst 36 Hours For Democracy Since the 1930s, America on Dictatorship’s Brink, and Civilizational Risk
the issue.theissue.io
Required reading for politically minded . . . scratch that. Just read it. If you’re interested in avoiding the inevitable pogroms that will likely swallow each user on this platform.
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Shut off the ego. You are enough. Omnia extares.
Hannah Arendt powerfully explained “the constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and w... See more
“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”
-Rainier Marie Rilke