Wonder how much of the “Nothing matters and I can’t care about anything” blues is a result of the (imo fake) idea that people should care about big vague important abstractions instead of real specific things
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Replying to @literalbanana
I seem to have settled nicely into "wildly abstract" (writing/reading about self-authorship / meta-narrative / God-and-the-universe / symbols-and-meaning) vs "wildly concrete" (I'm making another spoon soon, I swear) There is nothing in-between for me Heaven and filth Heaven a
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that seems like me too - the concrete stuff grounds the high-flying stuff (my favorite kind of abstract writing is lousy with concrete metaphor)
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(lousy in the sense of infested, in a good way)
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good more specifically re: the original tweet: ACCEPTING what I care about, what I don't care about, and everything in-between with all of the glorious and gory ambiguity and sharp sudden upsets-- incredibly freeing "I don't care" is right up there with "I don't know" in power
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oh man sometimes I say it out loud and it’s so freeing
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