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
Love this bit from All Things Shining about restoring meaning through seeing what you actually already care about.pic.twitter.com/SFW2xuodgc
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Replying to @JakeOrthwein
I’ve been obsessing all month about “objective, context-independent” stuff being fake and bullshit, I love to see this!
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Replying to @literalbanana
Your most recent piece about this opened a lot of doors for me, so thank you! I've been wondering a lot about exactly what kind of knowledge is encoded in stories, and found the idea that it is somewhere between global and indexical very helpful.
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