In terms of one’s immediate phenomenological experience in this moment, there is no difference between the memory of an actual experience you once had and an imagined one.
Interesting in light of the fact that memory and imagination both occur in the same area of the brain, the hippocampus.
“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
— Mark Twain
…the right-populist turn seems to be the effect of improved material, and especially technological, conditions that, for better and for worse, have made people furious with limits on their desires. If America appears to be leading the way, that is simply because America has always been a pioneer in the Western evolution of individual rights into a new type of fragile, enraged solipsism.
My wife is doing an MA in Contemporary Craft. This little window into academia is slowly but surely destroying her soul and will to live.
It’s not education, it’s attrition.
I am astonished by the sheer amount of, excuse me, absolute arcane bollocks that needs to be waded through. To paraphrase Willard in Apocalypse Now:
”…the bullshit piled up so fast, you needed wings to stay above it.”
“We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought.”
— Alan Watts
“Can we imagine a life with no content?”
Great episode of A New Way Of Being podcast, interview with Shiv Sengupta, a writer I have a lot of time for in matters of life, wisdom, spirituality etc.
A rainy, grey day. Yet there is egg, bacon and coffee at my local cafe before the cleaning of fires, chopping of logs and hopefully a run later…
