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art math

The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.

"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."

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we’ve been cooked since the industrial revolution

atp the only way we’re going to get out of this ai shit while people’s brains are still semi intact is to start bribing influencers and tiktokers into saying chatgpt is cringe and it emits a frequency that blocks your divine energy which can only be channeled back by reading a book and talking to your friends

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we’ve been cooked since the dawn of social media it’s alright

atp the only way we’re going to get out of this ai shit while people’s brains are still semi intact is to start bribing influencers and tiktokers into saying chatgpt is cringe and it emits a frequency that blocks your divine energy which can only be channeled back by reading a book and talking to your friends

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today was a good day

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progress is a longer attention span, which is rare

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ITS COMPLETE!!! CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT.

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i need Beach

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coming soon... to a cliff near you

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I Think About It All The Time

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things are easier than we think

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im always thinking about this tweet

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the value of emotions

Modern war is fueled by the perception of the other, and the inclination to defeat that “other” as long as they appear to be in the way. We have never left that medieval state of war – we cling to it. As long as we perceive fundamental differences between ourselves as well as insecurity, we will cling to a state of war in the naive hope that it will fill our void for recognition, camaraderie, acceptance, belonging, and safety. One way that we try to deal with this is by following trends (like the ice bucket challenge) - it forms a feeling of belonging with millions of strangers. Sport would ideally unite us away from violent wars and monopolies and towards friendly competition. However, sports are too inaccessible and/or uninteresting for most people to actively participate in. Johan Huizinga proposes this is due to the over-systematization of what used to be games that invoke a sense of frolicking, joy, pride – there are way too many stakes involved, and the bar is too high for just any schmuck be accepted as a player, even in smaller community games. Now, fans opt to gamble on their cell phones from behind the counters of their minimum wage jobs.

America lends itself to the illusion of belonging. “Work hard and make money – that is what fun is. That is how you will enjoy your life.” And so people spend their lives working long hours at jobs which, in reality, bring little to no fulfillment to their lives. Even if the job pays well - which is rare – how many people can say they are actually proud of what they do? That they actually enjoy doing the thing they give their lives to? For most people, we find fun in something called a hobby, and since hobbies are something most people do in our “free time”, the activity is not worth anything compared to the activities we do while we are “working”.

If we are to enjoy all the freedoms of capitalist America, then somebody needs to get their hands dirty, right? Somebody needs to do the slave labor, right? So that means that for us to be team players, we can’t be afraid of grueling, taxing, soul-sucking work. We should actually welcome it, because in search of joy, we find consumerism and shopping addiction – bright, shiny, beautiful things - and we need money to buy things. In an attempt to fill the hole in our chest, we support the team captains (the suits) that keep up this illusion that the best way to find happiness is to give our time, energy and money to Daddy America, who in turn will keep us safe from the enemy who IS out to get us.

But Daddy America isn’t holding up his end of the deal. As an aide to Bush in 2004 put it, “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality.” The aide discounts this new world’s basis on logical empiricism and Enlightenment ideals. As in, statistics and facts are boring to people, and they want to be emotionally swayed. There are no loyalties that America holds, except to the welfare of its private investors.

We understand the world by fitting events into pre-constructed stories in our minds. America lends itself to the story of the underdog – the poor person, the alcoholic, the immigrant - being accepted and cared for as a part of the winning team. But this is just a story – one that has its fingers around our heart strings, bending our will to match its own. If we were to make a new, different story in which we would be fulfilled in our lives and work, in which work would not be the dreadful thing that it is, in which we would have resources to build more meaningful relationships with loved ones, then it would require us to follow in America’s footsteps and abandon logic. Observe and keep track of your responses to environmental stimuli. This is the easiest way to learn about your own emotional needs. Lean into what feels good, discard the rest, and don’t be afraid to try on a new reality with new rules. If America can act independently, so can you. If America can build its own realities and rules and win at whatever game it’s playing with itself, then so can you. The difference is that as people, we are unique, changing beings. We are alive and autonomous. Let’s start acting like it.

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climate change isnt taken seriously because its something abstract, something we cant relate to. but if we put it in terms like, consumerism causes climate change, we vote with our dollars, it makes it a little more relatable and understandable and offers a clearer solution. for us to craft solutions we actually need to be able to relate to them, otherwise the problems/solutions are null and seen as unimportant.

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the more information we have, the less we feel the need to rely on leaders, the more we trust ourselves to be our own leaders.

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panopticon is a trending word in my reality - came across a tumblr post talking about naming a hedgehog panopticon about an hour ago. now im reading before bed and decided to check out a new library book of essays titled “the changing nature of work”. i browse for something relevant to me and i see an essay by shoshona zubanoff, author of surveillance capitalism, so praised by noel miller on numerous occasions. this essay by her is titled “the information panopticon”.