You know you should be changed by now, but somehow it hasn't happened yet. Context clash is the reason. You're absorbed in a certain context that you lived within for many years. At every turn you are reminded of this context. The people around you are in that old context with respect to how they interact with you as well. Even though you know it is wrong, and you've proved it to yourself intellectually, somehow it feels wrong to embody the new frame because it goes against the context of your years of felt experience. You need to actively work to disintegrate the old context by identifying all the triggers and actively ignore them or change them to fit the new context that you know is right. Clearly identify your new contextual frame of understanding yourself, then actively work to make all your daily thoughts align with that new frame, so your contextual understanding of yourself fits with who you know you really are.

@garberchov You can type "the comprachicos pdf" into google and get it free. Also, it's in the essay compilation called "Return of the Primitive"

I read something about Godzilla being an allegory or somehow feeding off the fear of the Japanese people. I love how the characters valued their human lives and learned to value their own dreams and happiness. Godzilla may have a shortage of fear to feed on going forward. Perhaps in the sequel he will instead feed on more positive emotions like hope.

I read something about Godzilla being an allegory or somehow feeding off the fear of the Japanese people. I love how the characters valued their human lives and learned to value their own dreams and happiness. Godzilla may have a shortage of fear to feed on going forward. Perhaps in the sequel he will instead feed on more positive emotions like hope.

RT @avidfilm: I still can’t believe it wasn’t nominated for Best Foreign Film. I’m glad at least it won Best Picture in Japan’s Academy Awa…

Private banks should not control all our money with impunity.

@avidfilm Thanks for the recommendation! I like movement of Godzilla, the main character arc and the ending bit with the telegram.

@EP_Freely It's ironic that so many "lovers of wisdom" reached the conclusion that their eyes and brains don't work. I don't think that's what Socrates meant when he said, "the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" 😂

@avidfilm I guess I'll watch it then.

@Lukewearechange Would be amazing if it happens

St. Augustine is an important figure in Western culture, but his philosophy is based on Plato, so I don't think his path can actually be followed. He believed the soul and body are two separate realities, that mystical revelation is needed to know truth, and study of our physical reality is irrelevant. I prefer Aquinas because his philosophy was based more on Aristotle. Enjoyed reading your (free) newsletter.

@StevePender @Culture_Crit It's Platonism, so yes, mysticism.

@thechosenberg Get him into computers a binary code. Maybe he'll find it interesting?

@AdrianDittmann Too many people heard Agent Smith's speech and thought, "he's right" They took the side of the psycho robots enslaving mankind for our body heat. That confesses a very negative sense of life.

@CountLatah @thugged_atlas Me too! I was going to comment that, but I'll just second your comment. The Comprachicos

Successful people tend to focus on the pursuit of their own goals above all else. This is precisely what we are often told not to do. "Don't be selfish" "What about the other people you could be saving?" Don't allow guilt to pull you away from the pursuit of your own goals.

35% income tax... 35% of your life, where you do not have liberty to pursue your own happiness. You are 35% owned. You're told that 35% goes to help poor children because that guilts you into accepting it.

"There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." -Albert Camus the The Myth of Sisyphus. Most people choose suicide 90%+ of their days. Doesn't mean they physically kill themselves. They simply choose to not live today. They ignore their own creative productive life goals. They turn off their mind, coast passively through the day, and choose not to actively live in each moment. Choose to turn on your creative, productive mind and actively live in this moment, right now.

Tradesmen are smarter than college professors. Trade work requires being connected to reality. You need to make something work, or it won't function and you won't get paid. College professors, on the other hand, work in a more abstract world. They don't get paid based on their students' getting a job, or on their ideas achieving their stated goals. Useful intelligence requires a connection to reality and what actually works in reality.