I have chosen to completely ignore all news about the US/China trade war(?) to test the hypothesis that actually I don’t need to care
Kinda hoping that eventually I’ll disregard current affairs entirely and only develop opinions on things with a 3-month lag
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“Visa did you read about the Dutch euthanasia thing,”
Nope. I’ll read about it next month maybe if anybody’s still talking about it then
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How long have we spent in the past ~5 years in passionate arguments that ultimately amounted to nothing? What could've we done w that time?
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“Visa do you know about the kid who got rejected by Harvard” idk, idc, ask me in 3 months
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Will you care about it in 3 months?
If no, why care about it now?
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I was thinking about this this morning since somebody retweeted it, and I'm positive the function of all this opinion-mongering is purely sociological.
There isn't much of a personal dimension to it, because it isn't even meant to be personal at all.
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yeah it's a whole crowd people following a crowd following a shadow on the wall
it's fine if it's what you want, but I don't think many people choose this in an intentional way
I think we can lead more interesting and exciting lives by being intentional about this
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also there are opportunities to use these shadow festivals for personal gain, profit, amusement, etc if you have a clear sense of who you are, what you want, what your goals are, what you're going after, etc. the energy of the crowd can give you a boost but you have to be clear
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'A boost' is putting it v. lightly.
Most of personal charisma is leveraging other people's emotional energy in various ways.
But yes, crowds are fickle and this is a dangerous game to be playing at scale. Standing at the fulcrum when the energy flows with you vs. against you...