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If you don’t build your cognition, someone else will. https://highlighter.com/npub1p4ausrwk3ncf6gu64zcg3s5aj50fs2prr7p94jackx3m32hjyxxsy79mkq
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Invisible Environment 1 year ago
One of the biggest signs of my maturation process is my newfound ability to know when I’ve had enough coffee.
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Invisible Environment 1 year ago
Most of society has the spirit of revolution beaten out of them by the time they’re 22. Mainly because the revolutionary rhetoric they have been fed is just that. It’s hard for them to find real actions to take while also being able to support themselves financially. But at nearly 40, the spirit of revolution is more awake in me than any other time in my life. All because of an actionable, sly roundabout way of separating money and state, that grows your purchasing power, making it easier to stay focused on the revolutionary action. When I talk to normies, I sometimes hear myself through their ears. They think I’m absolutely evangelical about bitcoin and how it can change the world. It’s foreign to them to have hope, so I sound insane. Fuck it. I’d rather be naively hopeful than wallow in despair. Let’s get to work.
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Invisible Environment 1 year ago
Limiting the scope of your decision space might be the most powerful tool for finding meaning and transforming yourself from a less desired state to a more desired one. Then you iterate on that, and so on. Aspiration. I once was a bit of a connoisseur of anti-discipline. I did not have to find excuses to be anti-disciplined. I existed in a permanent state of the fuck-its until I was around 31 years old. A series of events opened a window on the future for me at that time. I was able to see that this path would not end well. And so temperance and discipline became necessary conditions for living a life worth living. A 12 step program gave me the base layer to be able to move forward. I went to university after that, starting a degree at 32 years old. I was craving the sort of structure a degree would offer, while also carrying a chip on my shoulder that wanted to prove an undisciplined punk could excel at the academic game. The thing is, for me anyway, the external discipline of a program or a degree, are great starter kits for discipline. But they can become suffocating if they are your only structures. The freedom to create your own confines is real freedom. Building out your decision space to facilitate a transformation is real freedom. Rules not rulers. Discipline is a thing I continually come into friction with. But it is generally the antidote to many of my problems. When I start to feel like I am falling out of line with myself, it is almost always a recommitment to a self chosen structure that leads me out. Build out the structures of your mind or someone, or something will do it for you. image
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Invisible Environment 1 year ago
From my brief essay - The Illusion of Dialogue: “But in the public sphere of the hyper-propagandized age, you have to be careful you are not speaking with the hyper-agent of propaganda. In fact, in most public discourse, you will certainly be encountering a set of inorganic, top-down ideas. So it is our task then, to strip these apart in natural dialogue. This doesn’t happen in a comment section. We’re going to need to commune with one another.” Stripping apart our ideas, examining their sources, this is the only way to true dialogue in the public sphere. Even those ideas you hold so dear, the ones you would sacrifice it all for. They need to be encountered to ensure YOU think them, and that they haven’t simply been implanted.
The Illusion of Dialogue
Conversing with the Propaganda Hyper-Agent
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