American Faux Pas

"Ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise" These are merely my thoughts and I ask you to challenge them. This blog is for me to promote self growth through writing and reading. I will also promote various writers, photographers, and other artists that I've developed personal relationships with. If you find any work that you enjoy, whether by myself or those I've just mentioned, I ask you do the same to ensure their growth as well.

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Roberto Unger, from this video.

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THIS FALSE DILEMMA ARISES FROM A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF THE IMAGINATION

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Is it possible to change the world?

This passive consumer dynamic that the vast majority of citizens have succumbed to, is the result of decades of fear-based conditioning via tyrannical authority figures; such as our 12 years of obedience conditioning in the guise of “education”, inhibiting religious indoctrination that encourages repression, government power plays that suggest submission for security, and perhaps worst of all, the neurotic compulsions of our own conditioned parents.

Rather than coming to terms with the magnitude of their suffering and utilizing this painful awareness to strategize and persist against the catalysts of their oppression, most people compulsively prioritize escapism (drugs, television, video games, etc) to quickly abate the sting of their agonizing unfulfillment, ironically sustaining their negative circumstances in the resulting stagnation.

Change will take place when people disregard their pacifying distractions in favor of fermenting in the awareness of what they’ve allowed their lives to degenerate into, the opportunities they forsake, the potential they squander; this self-disgust then utilized as motivation to educate themselves and cultivate initiative, rather than perpetually mourning their perceived inadequacies.

Thought needs to be balanced with action, some risks need to be taken; we didn’t evolve by remaining complacent for the past 14 billion years. We have to take our minds and bodies off of this conditioned auto-pilot that’s rendered us in a state of passive dependency on tyrants and institutions that drain us of willpower. Consenting to this lifestyle of subservience, is to sacrifice the very will that compels our existence; it is to live as though we are already dead.

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War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength

George Orwell, 1984

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I'm here to thank you for being follower ;) Here's a question since I feel like I would be wasting your time especially you seem so intellectual... What do you think about human nature as a whole?

Human nature is a synonym for all of humanities "normal" actions. It refers to a preconceived notion that most individuals possess a singular form of action, thought and morality or ethics. There is no definitive answer as to what causes human nature to be singular whether it be relevant to evolution or social constructs, though I'm sure they both play a role.If you could, scroll through my page and I'm sure you'll find a more dedicated answer or post that incorporates morality as it's central theme. I apologize for the short answer; my laptop broke recently and maintaining this site through a cellphone is quite tedious.

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George Carlin on God and the Earth

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Luck isn't something that you're born with, it just happens. Growth isn't an achievement, it's a way of life. Don't slave over their recognition, instead, recognize yourself and just leave it at that.

- (Unknown)

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Motivation

Motivation comes from the mind - Inspiration comes from the heart. Envelope yourself in passion and motivation will become irrelevant.

Inspired by a brief conversation with Paul John Moscatellow

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Why does it seem like everyone is afraid of intimacy?

The majority of our social interactions are so watered down by the artificial social persona’s we’ve been conditioned to perpetuate, that when we experience authentic connection, we are terrified by the unfamiliar, overpowering sensation of intimacy.

Having actually established this innately significant dynamic with an individual, people will sometimes then be compelled to adhere to a flight response routed in the fear of agonizing disconnection, ironically being the catalyst for it.

One should accustom themselves to the awareness that pleasure inevitably entails pain, but not to self sabotage and isolate oneself as a preemptive measure. We have to indulge in empowering experiences while they last, rather than forsake these opportunities because we’re mourning their impermanence.

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To insinuate that truth is not subjective is to assume your reality is the only reality. Perception is only relevant to the one who perceives and what he or she makes of this vast realm of sensory phenomena. We may find ourselves rationalizing murder, religion, plague, or art but the quality of each is nothing more than a personal creation. Through nature and through nurture we develop our own rationalized sense of self although our innermost biological and conscious impulses vary in time and space. Our ideas, our character and our truths are not guaranteed to be parallel to the latter. By accepting this idea of subjective reality we can begin to formulate a more rationalized view of individual perception. Begin with yourself and reflect on your truths, withholding nothing. Find acceptance in your singularity, and in others.

   Individuality is reality,

           and this is my truth.

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Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it.

Tadahiko Nagao (via observando)

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You Failed Me & Yourself

I’ve been failed once again Not by god but by a friend A girl sensitive to my touch I swear I love you so fucking much You said goodbye and walked away I sit here in silence, loneliness fills my days You run to him with no remorse I pray that his time for you will run it’s course Although it pains me to say this If you ever come back you will be blatantly dismissed

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HOW TO DEAL WITH FEELING INCOMPETENT AND INCAPABLE IN LIFE?

Insecurity should inspire motivation to educate oneself and cultivate initiative, rather than mourning one’s perceived incapacitates. Thought needs to be balanced with action, some risks need to be taken, we didn’t evolve by remaining complacent for the past 14 billion years.

You will never know the confidence you seek unless you personally experience the vivid sensation of persisting through your anxiety. You have to take initiative to secure the circumstances that you desire.

Find motivation in the thought of lying on your deathbed, terrorized by the trauma of regret, the knowledge that you squandered a lifetime of potentially meaningful, euphoric experiences.

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Thomas Paine

The quality of a man or woman is not defined by their previous quarrels or struggle, but rather their ability to conquer them.

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Angel of the Earth

How serene, how exquisite

You make the birds sing on those fresh mornings

You make the wolves howl on those crisp nights

Even though you don’t think so

Angel of the Earth, why do you believe you are broken?

These men they use you, they abuse you

Angel of the Earth, I see...

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The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Malcolm Gladwell

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I would like to welcome all to my exiguous and desultory blog, a hyper-deferential-referential space for my thoughts on music and other mediums of expression/conveyance/articulation. I’ll attempt to post everything from the arcane to the more commonplace. So, amidst an inter-web already saturated...

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A friend of mine has recently created this blog. I encourage everyone to check it out!

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

Alan Watts (via liberatingreality)