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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
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I would like to write something about how I’ve found God to be a very interesting and useful entity to relate to but it’s kind of weird. It started with a book recommended to me about a new metaphor for understanding Aquinas’s modification of Aristotelian virtue ethics
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
lol
@visakanv
can you relate to becoming curious about ADHD and ending up researching the history of the encounter between Christianity and the Roman Empire and then becoming fascinated with the Aquinian modification of Aristotle's ethics enough to want to write a book about it
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
yea of course, tho you know the thing about the butterfly effect,
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"i'm not sure if I have adhd. maybe it's an environment problem what other environments might I be happier in? what kind of job? what are jobs, actually? where do jobs come from? how is wealth created? what can we learn from the oil and railroad barons? are startups the same thi-
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
hmm i guess i also have an ADHD train of thought about ADHD and mine is like "ADHD, ah, but have you considered: school bad, insecure attachment, total work / alienation from one's labor / lack of meaningful work under capitalism, the DSM as a tool of social control"
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
yeah I have been really deep into these trains of thoughts reading about antipsychiatry and trying desperately to understand Deleuze & Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" while forgetting to eat and take care of myself
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
and getting deep into Buddhist philosophy and meditation practice and Zen koans and studying virtue ethics to criticize modernity blah blah blah for years until I was about to become a dad and I was like wait I actually just need some fucking executive function medicine
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
so like recently I was very irritable because I was stuck with my book, and in my irritability i found myself criticizing people more. and the thing is, now that I'm less irritable, I can look back and see that all those criticisms were basically correct, albeit rude & unvisalike
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
yeah I also think there is deep powerful truths in taking ADHD as a messed up interaction between modern society and the sensitive child's innate curiosity etc just as the rising tide wave of mental illness in general seems like an almost unbearably strong indictment of our world
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
it's just that this whole line of thinking is such a fucking rabbithole into deeper and deeper critique that doesn't really have any short term leverage to change anything when the whole issue to begin with is that you don't even have enough agency to brush your fucking teeth
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