Portrait of a paradigm shift

Nietzsche -beyond good and evil

Nietzsche ftw

“I saw the best minds of my generation nuked by incendiary Iran-backed propaganda on the Internet, overcome, emotionally conquered, brainwashed, scrolling through the twitter streets at all hours, looking for an angry fix.

Empty-headed ‘freedom-fighters’ burning for the dark culmination of machinations they could never hope to understand, swayed, cowed by tiktok videos, inspired and levitated by verifiably false information, their minds a borderless morass of moral inversion.”

-Allen Ginsberg 2024

This is exactly why when Kamala/Walz say stuff like the Nobel prize winners agree with our economic plan, it doesn’t mean anything. Because Nobel prize winners say stuff like this, which is so breathtakingly reductive and vapid as to invalidate any appeal to Nobel authority.

This is exactly why when Kamala/Walz say stuff like the Nobel prize winners agree with our economic plan, it doesn’t mean anything. Because Nobel prize winners say stuff like this, which is so breathtakingly reductive and vapid as to invalidate any appeal to Nobel authority.

Nope, no overarching pattern. I just kinda do rough groupings. That way when I get anything new I don’t have to rearrange the whole thing. But I’ve always loved that scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack’s character claims to be organizing his records “autobiographically,” so my half-joke with my wife is that someday I’m going to do that

I love Rachel cusk!

New digs, new shelves #bookstr

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the American Left:

Oh boy, gonna have to dig into this one. If nothing else, certainly looks like entertaining.

The idea of going grayscale has crossed my radar before but for some reason I haven’t taken the time to implement it. Probably should though. You find it effective?

I couldn’t agree more with everything else you said. I have my assistant trained similarly now that I’m essentially not to be bothered when I’m out unless the proverbial shit is hitting the fan, blood, death, flames, etc.

Learning to be offline, to subtract as much as possible, to resist the algorithms and the quick dopamine hits, the mindless scrolling, the infinity of ads…it’s a survival skill at this point.

This is the way, I think. I try to do the same with apps on my phone. Basically I’m trying to use my phone as little as possible and make it as unappealing as possible. More specifically I’m trying to stop filling every interstitial period of a day with my phone. Embracing quiet, boredom even. Allowing my brain to wander in a checkout line. That sort of thing. I think it’s really a numbers game. Like if you carpet bomb your brain with inputs and stimuli all day you’re not going to give your brain any space to be creative, make deeper connections, wander, observe, and generate unscripted/unprompted thoughts.

#nostr has done such a good job of breaking my addiction to X and social media algorithms that not only have j not been on Twitter for a month, I accidentally haven’t even checked Nostr for a week and a half.

It’s crazy how much space exists in a day when you just reduce the deluge of inputs you’re accustomed to, when you don’t check your phone every time you have a free second or couple of minutes. When you consciously say I want fewer inputs, and I don’t want the firehose of other people’s thoughts. Your brain starts wandering around, stretching out, breathing again.

Highly recommend.

This just fucked me up

I fondly remember my elementary school library. These books and encyclopedias.

Man, I remember these eyewitness books. They don’t make em like this anymore.

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