Guys ngl i am worried about my career as a writer because im so fulfilled and happy that i just have nothing to talk about anymore. So in love with life that I’ve become kinda useless

why do people eat protein bars like who is forcing you to eat that because you look like you’re being forced

The “you can just do things” mentality is bad for society because it encourages hacking, cheating, finding the shortest path of least resistance, and optimizing for expediency when the mission of bringing heaven down to earth asks for genuine passion (Latin - passio, "suffering" or "being acted upon”). “Agency” on its own ironically actually lacks freedom because it’s enslaved by compulsion and the restless need to do, to acquire, to fix, to win, to progress, to “accelerate” or whatever without any regard for what is worthy of desire in the first place. “High-agency” people without true meaning are on a treadmill of exertion, unable to contemplate, love, and receive. It confuses the freedom to do as you please with the freedom to be acted upon by what is good, what is beautiful, what is true. It rejects the deeper freedom of obedience to a higher call/vocation, of being shaped, of waiting, of suffering for something worth suffering for.

The demand and appetite for slop started way before AI, like those 300-400 page pop psych business book on grit or whatever, Ted talks don’t hit like they used to, etc. all AI did was make it easier to create slop, and it just makes great creative work even more rare and prized

I feel like I’m going gentle into that good night

Sleeping beauty is the best coming of age story, symbolically it’s saying no matter how much advice you get you can’t dodge experiential learning, no self-help or parental guidance can replace growing pains. You WILL suffer and it’s love that’ll wake you up to why it all mattered

Propaganda I’m propagating: - babies - cats - Nabokov - Vienna - gold - beach/ocean - piano - orchids - butterflies - traditional Chinese medicine - sheepskin rugs - mint tea - hotels - strawberries - peacock feathers - Byzantine icons

An upward collapse. A mythos fever

Sleep is to bodily relaxation as boredom is to psychological relaxation. Boredom incubates memories into great ideas and stories the way sleep restores the body for better athletic performance. Boredom is the “dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.” (Walter Benjamin)