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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

      A lot of advice is like a video game weapon. The sword or w/e is unnecessarily ornate and not practical. That doesn't mean it doesn't have value. The ornateness helps with marketing and confidence and application. But you should never lose sight of where the cutting edge is.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

      Take "be contrarian" with regards to investing. The "fancy" interpretation is being able to spot the next big thing before everyone else and HODL it even in the face of mockery.

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

      The more prosaic advice there can be something like "Avoid stocks with high price-to-sales ratios because historically that is the best indicator to check if that company is over-hyped."

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

      See how the advice becomes so boring that it disappears in the latter? There's intuitive understanding that a mob is crazy and to stay away from things that are over-hyped. There not even a need to say "Be contrarian".

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          The trouble with aphorisms is that they're often similarly ornate(poetic). Anyone who has had real world experience sees through it as "fake". E.g. a butcher does not want or need a knife with fancy nooks and crannies and magic rune engravings.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          Just like video games transport you into a different world, an elaborate metaphor also is trying to "teleport" you into a different state. E.g. "swing the sword like a fishing rod" doesn't require you to literally believe the sword is a fishing rod.

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          The more the 'magic' of a metaphor can be parsed, the more concrete the action that results. "Leveling up" ironically is about *reducing* the amount of magic in the world b/c you can do more stuff yourself rather than watch in awe as other people do it.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          Same goes for spiritual woo, the stuff that sounds like literally insane magic. (it's telling that the most common entry point is psychedelics...) "think for yourself" means that your heading is right when you feels the loss of magic. You're "disillusioning" yourself.

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          If the further along you go the more you go "omg omg" then that's a strong sign that you might be in a maze. E.g. becoming a better magician means there are fewer and fewer tricks that amaze you, not MORE.

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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          Often times there's no malice in this by evil maze makers. It's just that if you don't shake off the identity of an audience member and actually get on stage, then you never actually learn anything. It's like watching 100 magic shows. It's mainly ur entertainment.

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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          You can approximate disillusionment by watching 100 youtube videos explaining and dissecting how magic works but you don't gain "embodied" knowledge and you also lose the ability to appreciate the shows.

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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          Knowledge hoarding with knowledge that doesn't do anything similarly strips away color and life from the show that is your LIFE. Unless you actively reject the audience member role and start knitting it together you drain magic from life w/o making it up through action.

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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          Action also btw doesn't restore the color. It's more like how responsibility allows you to bear the burden of meaninglessness. It's a Sisyphean struggle till death. Life IS the devil's bargain because "you" REALLY wanted to see the show and would do ANYTHING for a ticket.

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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          Being able to truly see through bullshit (the true understanding that forces your hand into action) turns you less into a happy fat buddha and more into a frazzled Jordan Peterson. It's *not* a path of happiness by normal standards.

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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          You'd think this would be understood since the entrance to this path has a giant "Life is Suffering!!!" sign on it. but everyone's like 'hell yea!! grand adventure."

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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 20 Dec 2020

          It's like looking at a cool sword and thinking "yeah, I want to learn how to use that." w/o appreciating that it's something you use to violently end other people's lives. Something something fold in Arjuna on the battlefield in here i'm going to sleep.

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