Seriously, human existence is a collective learning experience, Stagnation started rubbing its hands with perverse delight the instant we forewent vulnerability and openness for excesive individualism.
Edit: I still don’t know how to adequately open up to someone else, after a decade of trying to figure it out. After being raised to be a soulless performance machine and being surrounded by people who cave in to the grindset, I don’t know what it means to be open and vulnerable with another person.
And it sucks so much long-term, I can feel it as though I’m being held back several grades, like I’m completely missing the point of my own lived experience and have no idea what to do with it, because I don’t have the framework of a big picture atop which to analyse things, and I think that framework would be having enough perspectives which aren’t my own in my life.
I’ve finally understood what Alan Watts said, that we can’t know ourselves unless we have other people around to help us see who we aren’t. It’s because we know too well who we are, but not knowing who we aren’t, that’s like trying to understand fire without knowing ice.
Guess I’ll just die, then!
That’s why I bought a watch;)
I got bot flashbacks from Tinder and OKC the instant I saw the attached photo:))
Coming from Trump and his ilk, that’s a compliment. Fuck you, too, orange buddy.
Very much this… Honestly, we should’ve rebranded to Romerica starting with the 90s given just how much we have been blindly following their lead…
And I’m not saying this as an insult to America, believe it or not, as this very thing stands as an insult to our nation’s entire history. Ffs, even our anthem has been telling us to go our own way!
Edit: the current turmoil would be the perfect opportunity to split from these sickly influences and to finally establish ourselves as a European nation (idealistically, not… realistically, so to speak…). We’d have so much to offer if we’d just replace the people and systems which are in place exclusively to syphon money from our country with people and systems which would function with the sole interest of developing the country itself for the benefit of the citizenry.
And by this I mean pretty much the exact opposite of what Trump’s doing. We need people. We’ve been losing great minds left and right because living in this place is such a fucking needless headache 75% of the time, we need to change that. And we need to make this place welcoming instead of tightening the belt like idiots…
This whole economic downfall has never been a Right or Left-Wing issue, it’s been a “shitheads are running the game for their own interests” issue…
That awkward moment when I’ve been holding my mouth open for 30 minutes and my upper lip starts twitching, which causes anxiety because I must look like I’m losing my mind, so it worsens when trying to control it.
Why, John the Revelator, of course!
Why would you do that to yourself?:(
My favourite example of such.
I hate that I started hearing Gungans explaining 1984 to me now…
I hate these… as a tall person, I have a choice between cosplaying as Quasimodo, or letting that thing wreck my boot heels…