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If you have not read this piece, I recommend it: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/17/diseases-of-the-wi... > The situation is far more serious: question everything. Someone who thrived at life or work to a satisfying enough point will always tell you something - nihilistic like "it does not matter", - or reaffirming like "that's a lot of stuff to write about, no matter how many people write about it" - or "that…
> In either case you are left with sticking to the prescribed reality or you say fuck it and go down any of the spiritual and or occultist rabbit holes. Too limiting. Make one's assessment to the best of their ability and satisfaction, which is all one can do, and then act out that reality for better or worse. Learn academically or via hard knocks self deception, or never learn and experience a life an anguish. Which…
...if we don't pick a path of resistance against the questionable parts of the nature of our reality, then we end up cramming ourselves into tiny boxes traveling on conveyor belts from station to station. We acquire, assimilate, adapt, we learn, but only theory and results of pseudo-theoretical practice, which is war games acted out in controlled "public environments", really. We never get results in the actual, "wild" field. We end up doing stuff as a result and to satisfy the demand of long chains of questionable command and long chains of questionable past decisions, only to affirm and confirm the former and latter, not the stuff or the reality of and in the field.