fuck to this "enlightenment is quietism" shit thohttps://twitter.com/goofbone/status/1024055474449051649 …
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did you think that was *metaphorical* water you were gonna carry or *spiritual* wood you were gonna chop, motherfucker
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Yesterday I barely restrained myself from tweet grousing something like "if you want worldly success after many years of making a human of yourself, expect to brutalize your Intellect and do violence to your sensibilities" but didn't want to sound like anything but a born winner
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whew, almost brutalized the persona and did violence to the brand there
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BORN WINNER STRIDING FROM SUCCESS TO SUCCESS TM
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trying to remember if i've ever heard anybody speak Larry Ellison's name in tones other than those of seething hatred
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I have not
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But those will in turn fail before those who throw all ethics out the window and don't even bother with justification, either before or after the fact.
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there are consolations, such as they are, yes
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You sound autistic :^)
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thanks, i didn't get you anything
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The place where this falls down is that all that psychological integration will also keep you from making stupid costly decisions based on pattern recognition, passions, or rationales with giant gaps. You take longer to choose, but you avoid pitfalls.
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(By the same token: actually planning & strategizing instead of being a human markov chain leads to doing things no human has ever thought of before when those things are appropriate. When you do something nobody's done before, you have no competition & win by default.)
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If you are the first person ever to try to do a thing, even if you fail abysmally at it, you will be called a "tragic figure" and "ahead of your time" by infotainment hosts of the future for centuries after your death.
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While not nearly as good as success, it is a luxury not generally afforded to other kinds of failures.
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You might get outcompeted in the game they are playing (in the short term). But you are playing a different game with longer term payoffs
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When still a student, the Zen monk, Fa-yen, was going on his pilgrimage. A Zen teacher, Ti-tsang, asked him what he thought the purpose of pilgrimage was. Fa-yen paused, and answered, "I don't know." Ti-tsang said, "Not knowing is closest to it." Fa-yen had an awakening.
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Harrowingly close to the bone
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