just as every problem is an interpersonal relationship problem every political conflict is a conflict of "who is more real". each side thinks they "i am more Real, with my Real friends, doing Real stuff."
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every action is first measured against whether or not it affirms or erodes the identity that took so much energy to build. this isn't necessarily bad. like Mecha Suits, powerful identities have powerful effects.
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but because there is a layer that intermediates between self and reality by adding layers of moralistic judgement, it creates friction that jams up any activity that requires Flow. life gradually ends up consisting only of activities that don't require flow, like spreadsheets.
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egoic identities generate power in "reality" while your degree of "non-identity" (if that makes sense) measures your power in the "spirit world"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1349454312724783104 …
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it doesn't make sense for an "identity" to have a whole bunch of "Non-Identity Energy" though so to rephrase in a non woo way it'd be: "the power to push things through is opposite the power to let things go."
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notice how this is a common trap for many gung-ho spiritual seekers? they try to use "Ultimate Push Through" to get to the state of "Ultimate Letting Go". an emo teenager going "the world is shit" is better at letting go!
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there is only one real benefit to Pushing Through that Letting Go can be of help to and that is to let go of having to push through specific things.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1304696095159640064 …
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if you were to model the hooman as a computer, it would be equivalent to immunity to infinite loops by having some conscious control over the halting mechanism. you lose some (quite a bit actually) raw power but gain the ability to say "Enough".
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the core issue of trying to claim Realness is that everything, by definition, is part of reality. (people differ in whether or not they consider the spirit world part of reality but that's just a semantic argument of the word)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1349454307939127297?s=20 …
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to claim to be MORE Real than another or to accuse another of being LESS Real is to split the world into heaven and hell and create the source of all conflict. *yes* your side may be smarter or average, or kinder on average, or richer on average, or has dealt w/ more pain, etc..
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but it's all the same thing. it's a bunch of people in a mosh pit fighting over the one sharpened stick called "Real" so that they can emerge the victor and win their freedom. and We are the Watchers.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1343323497775284224?s=20 …
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