Concept of age conceals great tyranny Is age just a number? It would be. But instead it represents the years of failing to achieve, years of falling behind, years of not making it in time, years of running out of time… and eventually, it represents the time to die, represents that there’s no more time. …
Category: Philosophy
Relevant or Not
High quality / low quality — wrong dichotomy Original / Trite — wrong dichotomy Respectable / Dis-respectable — wrong dichotomy Relevant, or not — is the only metric How we love to IDEALISE, RATIONALISE, MAKE SENSE OF and MORALISE I don’t believe there is someone entirely free from this fault …
Conflict Is Stupid
Conflict is stupid It’s not true that strong, righteous men must get into conflicts. Men get into conflicts to prove themselves strong. Peaceful person doesn’t make enemies. What sense would that make? Enemies don’t make you more peaceful. Obviously you want to be the peaceful person. Then why would you get into …
Values Are Ideas Therefore Corrupt
Values are ideas therefore corrupt (idea = artificial creation = untrue) The real value is the truth. There is no other value. Let the truth unravel, slowly, without espousing any extraneous values Please be simple
Doing-What-You-Want Is…
Doing-What-You-Really-Want is not a matter of getting something glorious, not a matter of stepping up and not a matter of saving yourself the pain of regrets in your deathbed… Doing-What-You-Really-Want is really just a matter of DOING WHAT YOU REALLY WANT Which is a matter of self-knowledge And at that point — you …
Tough Don’t Act Tough
Tough don’t act tough Weak don’t act tough Those in-between act tough. Acting tough does make BEING TOUGH a little bit easier. But it’s obviously not being tough. Acting tough is an act before oneself as much as it is before the world. The actor does wish to BE tough. The wish …
Accountability
The fact that so few are accountable makes one wonder if one even knows the meaning of ACCOUNTABILITY Let me explain There are two ways of doing something. OPTIMAL and NOT OPTIMAL The difference between the optimal and not optimal is often ambiguous. Particularly in creative acts. It is also often NOT …
Giving Advice
Be careful with GIVING ADVICE. Yes, be wrong all the time. Yes, say whatever the fuck you want. Yes, explore. But be careful with WHO and WHAT you advice. Advice more competent person then yourself — you will likely come around as tryhard and insecure. Mind you if you’re wrong — it can just …
Achievements are Distractions
Achievements are distractions One should just take what he wants Achievement is prison Achievement is the slavemaster Need takes away freedom Need to achieve makes you a slave One should just take what he wants Anything more is grandiose delusion Anything less is resignation, defeat One must be really simple to …
There Actually Is Time For Everything
There actually is time for everything. There are things you will never get a chance to do again. It doesn’t matter for the past — but it does matter for today. There are things which you can only do today — you know you should, you know you want. You can’t do them tomorrow. It’s …