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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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      Thread of idea barfs: 1/ Why any sort of identity from a country to a company to a sense of "I" requires fear.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1272896795710980098 …

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      The primal weakness of an institution is that any useful information that arises from the world and not the institution becomes a threat. It threatens the narrative that the system is the source of all good.
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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      2/ How looking for "passion" can be the same as recruiting for suicide bombers.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1272433240200982529 …

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      "Passion" is a euphemism for this unstoppable force but most people just fake it. Systems that fill with this type of energy tend to lack courage.
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          3/ Why crowd mentality is always lowest common denominator and why rallying around an ideal always requires giving up some individuality.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1272112946068385792 …

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          Rallying around ideals never really works out because every person has a different interpretation of that ideal. Rallying around specific things allow you to keep honest conversation open as there’s less chance of “exposing” yourself to others.
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          4/ On how to become the ultimate judging eye of God through mental discipline.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1271739511760805890 …

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          You've deemed it worthy by letting it arise within your attention. That's what your attention is, it is Ultimate Judgement of Worthiness. When you shun this responsibility you shun your nature. You fake your tastes and so destroy your morals.
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          5/ The difference between "S" players and "A" players.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1271694836664463360 …

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          In rhythm games there’s an “S” level that’s higher than “A”. Maintaining a high combo is necessary to get such a high score. An A score and an S score can have similar accuracy but wildly different scores due to how the errors are distributed.
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          6/ On the fractal explosion of seeds and forests.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1268813525960421376 …

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          The timelapse of one tiny seed growing into a forest is an explosion of life. We try to copy it with our explosions of energy. But our over-eager attempts are mockeries of and fiery disasters.
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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          7/ How diversity multiplies economic activity.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1264790284711260160 …

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          1/ Diversity of cultures can multiply meaningful work by creating a lot of re-interpretation work to translate across different cultures. The obsession with efficiency via homogenization eliminates this diversity.
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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          8/ The definition of human adulthood.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1264099260028432384 …

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          Definition of an adult: someone who has stopped being disappointed in people because they realize everyone is the same.
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          9/ The limitation of the mind is that it can only hold one idea at a time. It is discrete.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1264044545483763713 …

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          1/ The mind can only hold one idea at a time. To pick one up is to put the other down. E.g. if a woman wants to be more than 'just' a woman often they accused to rejecting femininity.
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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          10/ How managers usurped leaders and now predominantly masquerade as them. We end up following those who cannot product light.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1259036950469570561 …

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          A manager is essentially a gatekeeper. They don't have to and shouldn't do anything. They merely need to be socially accepted as having good "taste". That they can spot greatness, grow it, and reject that which doesn't have it.
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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          11/ Babies as a traditional source of light and meaning as 'pure' players of the infinite game.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1258692247240859650 …

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          Babies are a constant source newness and interesting-ness. The ultimate protection against existential angst. Question is. Is an infinite gaming library also an infinite source of interesting-ness? Do they also serve the same 'divine' purpose of furthering humanity?
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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          12/ Becoming a God is mostly about controlling optics. Same for creating any sense of the Divine.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1256151439656644609 …

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          You can create a godlike illusion if you rarely show up and always show up with your best side. Leadership is often optics management to project a vision of someone worth following. A hero.
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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          13/ Why groups will always lag the individual in growth.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1253084665650409472 …

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          1/ Individuals grow through individual experience. Groups through group experience. Humanity too grows through experiences good and bad. The larger the group, the slower the growth as larger experiences are much more difficult to create.
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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 18 Jun 2020

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          14/ How we've lost the ability to be truly humble.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1251082095075549184 …

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          Imagine someone so above you that you'd make it your life mission to serve them. Just imagine it, it's quite difficult to actually get yourself to feel that humility, servitude, and submission. We want feelings of power instead.
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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Jun 2020

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          15/ On the eternal conflict between soldiers and vampires.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274021970779103237?s=20 …

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          To desire a society without soldier's and police is like desiring a body without an immune system. The response to an auto-immune disease with the body attacking itself should be "Well, can we use AIDS and just remove the immune system altogether?"
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        14.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Jun 2020

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          16/ Making enemies wisely. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274478268708605953?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274478268708605953 …

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          “Should” is self-defeating as it defines an enemy too sharply and gives it definition. It creates coherence not to understand but to form a target to attack.
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        15.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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          17/ A beginner's mind is to live by what you die by.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274598369617297413 …

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          Whatever you live by, is what you'll die by. If it can't kill you, then you can't really live. Obviously a sword works. But try something else.
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        16.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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          18/ Why the pokemon world is the only successful utopia we’ve imagined. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274609271968129024?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274609271968129024 …

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          Pokemon teaches the joy of being to live in a mysterious world where everyone can be unlocking the mysteries of the universe all the time and still be optimistic about the future enough to have children.
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        17.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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          19/ Narcissistic Evil Babieshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274613387620564993?s=20 …

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          What does being humble feel like. Babies literally are born thinking the whole world is them. Even today my world revolves around and has revolved around me. By definition there’s no way I can create my world w/o using me as the method of creation.
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        18.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 21 Jun 2020

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          20/ Gurus, "Gurus", and salespeople.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1274614970156609536?s=20 …

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          The difference between a guru and "guru" is this. A cult leader or "guru" offers you fire from which you light your torch. A guru tells you his light is worthless and that you must find your own. One radiates and has no interest in being helped or to help. The other burns.
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        19.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 22 Jun 2020

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          21/ "Cheating" and China.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1275106966038142983?s=20 …

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          By destroying almost all of it though there is no longer any sense of the sacred left. Just status chasing and consumerism. The only sense of the 'sacred' left is a strong belief that you should have children which IMO is just a leftover cultural script from birthing soldiers.
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        20.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 23 Jun 2020

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          22/ Identity and determinism.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1275504145957482496?s=20 …

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          People are like sponges, soaking up whatever they surround themselves with. Being 'full' of stuff already prevents being affected by the environment. Strong identities are formed when the environment is considered hostile.
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        21.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 24 Jun 2020

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          23/ Ego is an evil high-tech alien machinehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1276033784798777345?s=20 …

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          The God machine increases the legibility of the system and so increases inefficiency by forcing every function to route under a central system. The system feels very tentacle-like.
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        22.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 29 Jun 2020

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          24/ Parkinson's law and the importance of being able to recognize and differentiate 'work' and 'play' states.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1277510613564973056?s=20 …

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          Work and play mutually enrich each other _because_ they are separate. When that boundary is broken work takes over everything. You try applying your 'play' to work e.g. 'following your passion' but all that does it turn your passion into work.
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        23.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 4 Jul 2020

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          25/ Faith is the ultinate mental model to wield. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279338528015437825?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279338528015437825 …

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          Collect mental models so that you can see everything from every point of view. If there’s something you can’t see with good intent, it indicates a gap in your knowledge.
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        24.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 5 Jul 2020

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          26/ A Matrix is an environment that is set to continuously perpetuate a single identity.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279482141777080320?s=20 …

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          A matrix is an ecosystem of actions that preserves an identity. E.g. a central hearing system wants to preserve an identity of a specific tenperature.
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        25.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 5 Jul 2020

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          27/ Cultures are different kaleidoscopes, full of different color palettes and shapes and mirrors. Each culture celebrates life in a different way. We all have the same god in that we all celebrate life. (except for death cults)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1279582489086849029 …

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          Systems that don’t have enough anchors of symmetry for their volume of content don’t produce beautiful kalaeidiscope effects. Just glitter and sparkle explosions, one after the other until only smoke and fire remain.
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        26.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 7 Jul 2020

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          28/ Freedom is a loaded gun.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1280412877573087232?s=20 …

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          Freedom is dangerous precisely because it is never having to do work for anybody. Without these anchors of necessity you are no longer needed or necessary for the world.
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        27.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 8 Jul 2020

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          29/ The only true source of happiness doesn't look like happiness.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1280758936841273349?s=20 …

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          The loser who dies happy for the victor is the source of happiness. This Most Difficult of things to be happy about is actually the only True source of happiness. This is the source of a 'divine' or 'sacred' feeling.
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        28.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 8 Jul 2020

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          30/ The killing of gods bolsters the powers of men.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1280775734915559424?s=20 …

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          When you kill god you increase the pressure on kings to ridiculous extents. Being cursed to be human yet having to be lived up to as a god will inflate the ego and self-deception powers of anyone just as a pufferfish expands when danger is close.
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        29.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 11 Jul 2020

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          31/ Game addiction is work addiction, not play addiction. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282033020845690881?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282033020845690881 …

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          I suspect most video game addiction is not play addiction but work addiction. A sense of “I have to get better” situated within a social context with tangible measurable markers of progress.
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        30.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 13 Jul 2020

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          32/ Love is the spark between yin and yang and it’s purpose is to enjoy cake. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282571485454860289?s=21 …https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1282571485454860289 …

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          Misogyny probably arises from how a woman cannot directly make a man love himself. “He” sees “Her” as an obstacle in his quest for love.
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