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No psychedelics required either, no painful ayahuasca exorcism or bromystical striving No need to turn on or tune in. Skip straight to drop out. Suck it Timothy Leary. Still live player > dead player tho Sometimes trying too hard is acting dead
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This thread is sort of the end of a line of thought for me that started with the paradox that the tech backlash is as driven by the same desperate striving for perfection and excellence as the thing it was reacting to. It’s the same damn drive turned inwards.
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Gonna have to refactor classic Confucian wuwei a bit though, since it’s really deleuzean striated-action trad posture. Aka, going with conventional flow as effortless inexertion. Doesn’t work if convention itself is a ratchet of frantic arms racing.
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In this case, almost certainly. SubGenius is an impenetrable morass on purpose. I'm just glad you're on the track. (Spot on about the lazy reinvention. I've seen enterprise software folks write years of code, to avoid whole days of learning someone else's.)
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