i am glad that they're not straightforward. if a dream is too realistic and mundane, our brains might not be able to distinguish a dream from reality or a memory.
they're never straightforward and often symbolic. carl jung believed that dreams compensate for imbalances in the conscious mind. they highlight the neglected opposite. there are a lot of other theories.
i only know when i have nightmares, they're often when i'm overly anxious or stressed about something.
back in the day, kings could just tell people that god appointed them to do their divine duty and rule an empire for however long they want.
this week's #bookstr
sapiens
by yuval noah harari
i agree that it's wrong. he can be a kingmaker after this. i guess draining a corrupt swamp takes time. four years is not enough when you have a bureaucracy working against you.
stop following bots, #nostr
this is a bot discrimination revolution!
haha! maybe he has other really great ideas and i happen to stumble upon a half-assed poorly thought out one of his.
is it because there's always something new to play with? thanks for your recommendations, by the way. i tried all of them. amber and yakihonne are both great.
i don't understand how eric weinstein acquired the label of a contemporary intellectual. a quick search suggests he's considered a genius. i listened to an interview where he presented his centralized ideas on resolving online anonymous trolling, ideas he struggled to explain or articulate clearly.
it's evident he's been deeply burnt by trolls, but even with his intelligence, does he genuinely believe a piece of software or a set of code can fundamentally alter human nature?
often intellectuals are hyper-focused on a single subject, lacking the understanding and application of humanity's best and worst aspects within their work. if anything, big tech has consistently been exploitative.
i don't know how long i have to be on nostr to no longer say that i'm new here. as i'm typing this, i realized that it's when predictive text and autocorrect no longer corrects nostr to nostril.
realistically, a month of daily use is enough to say i've been here long enough. less? idk.
we are dystopian moving to a cryptopian world.
haha! i would think so. i see 10 pigeons perched on a nearby tree and at least 3 of them have already shat on my car or the same bird that shat a lot.
and not a single pigeon poop dropped on your car? :)
testing jumble.social. i discovered it when i tried to post on fiatjaf's 23gmt. it may be my new web client.
history books only tell stories about the _heroes_. they need it to continue the cycle. little is written about the people who lived through the tyranny of control, unscathed.
i don't think choosing a simple life is being asleep at the wheel. i see it as an act of defiance and that you can see through their means to control and not want any part of it.
simulcra and simulation
by jean baudrillard
this book from 1981 has an interesting take on our current reality from a french philosopher who predicted social media and fake news many decades before the internet existed.
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