Most of your competition quits after the first sign of difficulty because they’ve never known what hard feels like. If it’s hard for you, it’s hard for everyone. And most people avoid hard things, which is why you can beat most people by just trying.
Ask yourself: what would somebody who accomplished what I wanted think about all day, from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to bed?
Then ask: yesterday, what did I think about roughly hour by hour and how is it different from the ideal I just spelled out?
Demokratische Politik ist, persönliche Verantwortung für das Gemeinwesen zu übernehmen.
If the problem is sufficiently big, everybody is part of the problem.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Walter Benjamin
Life is a blockchain. You cannot alter past entries, you can only add new entries
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
F. N.
We need a unification between the concepts for Reality and Information
E: Do you believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?
B: Prove the opposite
metamodernism uncritically treats emotional sincerity as a kind of self-evident truth that’s beyond critique. It simply substitutes unexamined claims to subjective truths for unexamined claims to objective truth.
Metamodernism is just modernism in drag and fundamentally reactionary (Vinay Gupta)?
Energy, Time and Information
To accomplish any given task, you can use a mix of three “pure” capabilities:
– unlimited knowledge and no time or energy
– unlimited time, but zero knowledge or energy
– unlimited energy and zero time and knowledge
e.g. you know something and you try to use it in the real world. It doesn’t work, so you add some combination of more knowledge, brute force, or just time (trial and error) to make it work
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1970s: Globalization
1980s: Neoliberalization
1990s: Computerization
2000s: Financialization
2010s: Mobilization
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You see it hit the shore.
We are living in a kalediscope of time layers, awash in a sea of temporal complexity, that it results in our perception of now feeling distorted.