In an idea-riffy mood this afternoon, thinking about narratives. For whatever reason, humans seem to be wired for narratives. We’re susceptible to them, dependent on them. This seems true whether or not we’re aware of it, and whether or not we explicitly articulate itpic.twitter.com/6ADtDu1zUx
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Alan Watts
Alan Watts had many great riffs on this, eg “we are all constantly telling each other who we are”. There’s a finite/infinite, living/dead component to this - many play within boundaries, some play *with* boundaries. Hit “inspect element” and mess aroundhttps://twitter.com/alanwattsdaily/status/1047127848920788992?s=21 …
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Everything in our lives is either a part or potentially a part of the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what it’s all about. Every object, person, relationship, idea, thought, memory - all are bits in a larger story we get to write and edithttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1017314604987265024?s=21 …
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Jim Carrey gets into this near the end of this beautiful videohttps://youtu.be/21CEOlBq2YI
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