who would you let read your journal? how would you feel if someone you didn't want to read the journal got a chance to read it? would you be able to read your own journal and keep your composure?
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Sorry Russell already asked this two centuries ago.
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well he shoulda put on the internet then good thing i'm here to pick up the slack
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I don't usually think that way in the first place. Most of my internal thoughts are visuospatial or brief phrases and partial fragments of sentences or both. I usually only formalize linguistic representations when communicating externally.
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I think that's true of a lot of people. I'm imagining the journal as being an artifact rendered into a form more readily communicable to other people but representative of your internal thoughts.
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I just visualized a montage of brief scenes progressing through the degeneration of the substance use habits of an opioid addict, embedded within the simultaneously progressing patterns of the broader society, in part their statistical reflection and part their econometric cause.
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It would have made a fairly decent documentary tbqh
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Eventually recovering to maintenance, itself perhaps a parallel to some eventual recovery of the relevant local socioeconomic climate away from war-by-militarized-black-bloc-cops and toward sensible maintenance of community-level health baselines and individual rights?
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But we all know this is too optimistic, for now. The junkie again ambivalently indulges, another no-knock-raid destroys another family senselessly with no economic or societal gains to speak of, the cycle of condemned opposed compulsions continues. Eventual prognosis unclear.
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No one said a word. I am merely transcribing from imagery and its emotional context.
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Alternate possible changes to past conversations. War-gaming potential future conversations. But mostly talking myself through something I'm learning, a la Feynman explanations
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Formless, or at least media-less I don't tend to think symbolically and even then it's hard to put words to feelings and thoughts. I've said before I try to do this on Twitter a lot
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A lot of existential questions and wisdom beyond my 18 years.
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