The desire to optimize is a disguised form of fear; every optimization is "get me the fuck away from this scary thing, as far as possible."
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Love is homeostasis; it is wanting to bring things into balance and harmony, and it is deeply okay with rest and stillness.
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Love *isn't* always homeostasis. Imagine the immigrant who moves his family half way around the world in hopes of offering his children a better life. Imagine the architect, designing cool buildings and caring for the experiences of the people who will use them. etc. etc.
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If you're a lizard and it's cold, homeostasis means moving to where it's warm. Homeostasis isn't incompatible with large and drastic action. But in any case this wasn't intended to be an argument, it was intended to be poetry, although that wasn't well signaled.
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