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Mikael Brockman 🥸
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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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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
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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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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
I also pretty quickly end up somewhere like "ADHD → context shifters → symbol manipulators → shamans → huh I might be the chosen one → no you've read too much heroes journey shit → can one really read too much heroes journey shit? → read criticism of heros journey..."
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
*lights old-timey pipe* it is perhaps an unfortunate feature of the hero's journey as a conceptualization of one's life that it implicitly robs every other human being of agency; perhaps we ought speak instead of "heroes' journeys", and tell stories of multitudinous heroism
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
like the "haha! I am the hero! you are the NPCs!" is a grotesque transmogrified husk of what the journey is about, so much so that you could frame such a "hero" as the villain
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
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The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world - no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper
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