a very, very tragic thing is the population of people who take their own lives directly or via e.g. opioid addiction due to a loss of meaning or a chronic intolerable anxiety over loneliness or poverty, conditions that IMO can only be mitigated via powerful self-sustaining hope
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Replying to @webdevMason @bronzebarbarian
it's not anyone's "fault" for falling into such despair, but I think we could all be part of creating a culture that's protective against it — a better social safety net is part of the answer, but without a visceral hope/optimism accompanying it, it's not sufficient
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Replying to @webdevMason @bronzebarbarian
my current thinking is that a balanced structure of practical activity and consciously maintained delusion is how this is addressed; the problem is it would appear to be impossible to propagate this idea while propagating good judgment about what delusions to have along with it
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mass scale life coaching does not seem like the most practical intervention
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oh, wait organized religion. i've invented organized religion
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sincerely thought you were cathposting
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and why shouldn't you have truly my commitment to reinventing the wheel as a means of achieving understanding of wheels is deeper than i could have imagined
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Replying to @chaosprime @atroyn and
Ok but what if all the wheel vendors are selling rectangles but calling them wheel...
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Replying to @danlistensto @atroyn and
pretty sure that's what they call a market opportunity
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Replying to @chaosprime @atroyn and
Can I join your cult? Totally not a sleeper agent in
@brazen_cabeza cult which is definitely not a real thing that we definitely don't talk about openly1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
oh i'll absolutely save you a slot, you can be the voice of conscience in the steering committee who's sad all the time
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
mostly because, y'know. there are two kinds of cult leaders. in one, the massive libidinal oversupply necessary to perform their functions is all twisted up and coagulated in creepy asceticism, so they do not treat the membership as a sexual smorgasbord i am not that kind
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Replying to @chaosprime @atroyn and
I will provide you with a room that locks from the outside
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