I am incredibly prejudiced.
When I see the ‘technical advisors and custodians’ of Free Our Feeds looking all slick, professional and LinkedIn, I get that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach and just think: ‘oh no, here we go again.’
Highly recommend this book of astonishing poems.
The Kissing of Kissing: Poems (Multiverse) by Hannah Emerson.
A direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson no less but her poems stand powerfully by themselves regardless.
“The mind chases experiences the way a dog chases squirrels: compulsively. The mind thinks (thinks!) that the more experiences it has, the smarter it is. So it stores them up, these experiences, until its memory bank is filled to bursting with remembered experiences. For relief from this self-created pressure, it looks for other minds to share experiences with. This, of course, involves A LOT OF TALKING. Overheard: “You must go there! You must do this!” Now, wisdom is very quiet. It’s the space between words, not the words themselves. Something else about wisdom: it has no memory.”
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“Love is an action. But the action happens by itself. There is no doer. Love is not an activity; it’s the centre of the wheel. There’s no ‘me’ in it, no plan or purpose. There are no rewards for love. It sees no difference between pain and pleasure. It profits no one.”
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“A political situation is the manifestation of a parallel psychological problem in millions of individuals. This problem is largely unconscious (which makes it a particularly dangerous one!)”
— Carl Jung
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“It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else.”
— Carl Jung
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Really trying my hardest to watch Megalopolis but I fear Coppola might have left us with, as his parting gift to cinema, the most unwatchable film ever made.
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In the spirit of prevention being better than cure I think it behooves all of us to acknowledge our own personal darkness/ shadow. Not just for our own sakes, but perhaps more importantly for those around us and with whom we share our entwined and interdependent lives.
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The divine right of tech billionaires…
There are no absolutes, ultimates or fundamentals in nature – only at the limits of our perceptions.
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