The pandemic highlights an issue that has been haunting me all my life: most people live in a socially shared consensus reality, while I am locked into an independent construct. Accounting for the consensus seems more important than for the available evidence. How strange.
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And “serving civilization” may be a dangerous long game if the only expected outcome is a few minds that “get it” being tortured in isolation within the ignorant trance of the masses (do they even count as civilized in your worldview?)
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I would add that civilization doesn’t care one whit whether you think you are serving it in the long term or not. To say so may make your quest sound noble in the face of suffering but ultimately one has to come to grips with one’s own happiness.
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HAL said something similar: " I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
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HAL was literally a scared 12 year old
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It seems to me that on the one hand you celebrate your isolation but on the other you are not at peace with it There is indeed potential for creativity at the intersection of opposites but I would argue if you define yourself only by the tension you run the risk of doing nothing
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I am not isolated, I am surrounded by love and friends. But I find that I am connected to others in their spiritual alienation with human society.
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No argument here. I've drifted through my life but now that I am listening I understand I'm only partly enmeshed in the genpop matrix.pic.twitter.com/KYIQlCxSIF
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I hope your dismissal of my point as obvious means you’ve already realized it, but to be clear: even if you don’t fall into the *dominant* trance, you have submitted to trances that are just as dangerous even if fewer people are bewitched by them.
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This is true and wise
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Some of the trances you’ve accepted could be equally viewed by others as violations, even if they have fewer adherents. But you dismiss those dismissals because you see yourself as operating at a higher level, a more TRUE level.
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