[wovi]

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simone weil

[wovi]

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ursula k. leguin

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

[de-activated-offical]

I need to do this. (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't do it) (Doesn't d

[weltenwellen]

Goatsong Leila Chatti

[luxe-pauvre]

We have lost so much since the advent of smartphones and algorithmic social media. Nicholas Carr in The Shallows tracked what the network was doing to the deep reading brain, the kind of brain that sustains attention across a long argument and doesn’t need to be jolted into focus every six seconds. Maryanne Wolf, a neuroscientist of reading, has shown that the deep reading circuit is something we build, individually and culturally, and we can lose it. Sherry Turkle in Alone Together warned us we were trading conversation for connection, and we did, and we are now learning what conversation actually was, in retrospect, by its absence. What’s worse, the people who need to hear about how dire it’s gotten don’t have the attention span to learn what's wrong. We’re like end-game Dunning-Kruger, and they don’t even have the tools to go beyond the shallows of thought. We have also given over much of our humanity to the machine. Now, I don’t just mean technology. It’s also to the machine of celebrity. This culture industry is built on our adoration, but it largely doesn’t love us back. Roland Barthes, in Mythologies, would say that celebrity is myth in the technical sense: a sign whose history has been emptied out so that something ideological can be poured back in.

Artlust, The Met Gala is a Sign We’re in the Dark Ages

[thebonewitch]

At the end of the day, my thoughts on job hunting are that it's incredibly stupid how every fiber of our current socioeconomic structure is screaming that you MUST have a job and nothing else matters because you MUST be working and that's the only thing of true importance so never forget that you MUST have a job, and I'm like damn okay so I'd like a job, can I have one? And the answer is No

[ryebreadgf]

real yearners miss shit that never even happened

[allsadnshit]

Yeah

[anak1n]

no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?

[peanut-jelly]

lately ive been bedridden with a terrible case of i dont wanna

[disease-deactivated20210414]

mosaic on a former carpet factory (1978) by s. lewkowicz kowary, poland

[podcastwizard]

sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world

[csny]

everymorning: i think im about to die. i think im going to die. im actually going to die. this is it. im going to die. im going to die immediately.

every single night: lock in. OK. Lock In. Change your Life. I love you. Lock in. This is going to be big. I’m going to change the world. Ready? I love you. Lock in. I have an idea. Lock in.

[kafk-a]

T.H. White, in his 1958 retelling of the Arthurian legend in Once and Future King

[casawio]

who up in a kafka-esque rut sleep deprived, casually malnourished, socially awkward, painfully self-conscious, struggling financially, lacking community, altogether anhedonic

[raylangivins]

[achillesinhighheels]