#feed your mind

[beccawise7]

Beware the nerdy girls.

We read & we know things. 😂

~beccawise7 💜🖤

[mmw8054]

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

Aldous Huxley, End of Means (1937)

[blondebrainpowered]

GIF by Nolan Pelletier

[beautifullittlefool1999]

[ultraviolenceno]

[callmewinged]

"Another poem comes to mind, one that for me was life-changing. In 1985, I was working with Mariko Aratani on co-translating Japan's two great classical-era women poets, Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, for what became the book 'The Ink Dark Moon.' Mariko sight-translated this, One of many thousand-year-old poems by Izumi Shikibu, And I knew right away it was one I would want to include, but even after I'd written down the word by word literal version, with the Romaji and each word's potential meanings, and took it away to work on, I couldn't find its meaning. I had the grammar, the English word order, the nouns and verbs and conjunctions; I knew something important was in it, but not yet what that was. Then suddenly, the poem became clear. Here's the English translation:

Although the wind

Blows terribly here

The moonlight also leaks

Between the roof planks

Of this ruined house.

What I understood was this: If the house of your life is walled so tightly that no cold winds can enter, then moonlight will also be barred. Buddhist enlightenment, awakening, the fullness of existence...if You close yourself off to the unwanted experience of Cole wins, you'll lose everything wanted as well. But become a person willing to have a leaky roof, cracked windows, permeable walls, and the fullness of a human life will spill in. The capacity for knowing moonlight is not separable from the capacity for suffering." ~ Jane Hirshfield (incidentally, one of my more favorite poets)

[netscapenavigator-official]

Technology Connection’s video about algorithms brought up a good point, and it’s made me realize something.

In the video, Alec mentions how algorithms and AI allow people to offload their thinking, which is a real problem because it causes people to actually forget they have the power to think, learn, and discover things on their own.

Something he didn’t talk as much about, but I kinda connected the dots on, is that this applies to fun and leisure too. When you spend every hour of your free time on TikTok, Reels, Twitter, whatever… you’re offloading your fun, too.

And I guess the point of this post is to ask: What’s the point of living a life where you offload everything that you enjoy and that enriches you… but you have to be fully present for everything that makes you miserable (school, work, etc.)

And I don’t mean that in a suicidal, self-depreciative way. Just, like, we’re alive. A lot of us are going to be alive whether we like it or not, for many years to come. And if that’s the case, then why should we spend our few waking hours fully engaged with the things that make us miserable, but completely disassociated with the things that make us happy?

I know offloading thinking is a problem, and algorithms can be enticing, but imo more people should be aware that they aren’t engaging in the enjoyable things in their life. They’re using them as tune-out stimulus, and when you do that, enjoyable things become less enjoyable, and they become an apathetic consumption.

Therefore, you end up with a negativity bias in your life because everything that drains you is at the forefront of your mind, but everything that recharges and distracts you is in a dark corner, out of sight and out of mind.

[daddysnaughtylittlehotwife]

Before my time, but completely appropriate for the times we are living in. Timeless lyrics… timeless message. Feed your head!!