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Weird that people don’t often draw the obvious lesson from the canary in the coal mine idea: use people who are naturally prone to suffering as sensors for sensemaking. Artists have appropriated much of the economic value of suffering-sense-making because *some* artists suffer.
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Art is mostly a red herring. Whenever I’ve learned something from art, on a double take it turns out to be the underlying suffering.
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This has been a life hack of mine for years. When I want to know “what can this person help me see that I’m blind to?” I reframe to “how is this person suffering?” I’m somewhat kind but I’m not always a very nice person 😶 Probably gonna pay karmacoin for this habit someday
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This doesn't seem like a way I would want to live. IMO suffering is something to accept and move past, contextualizing everything through suffer yields good insights, but then your whole life revolves around suffering. My biggest insight from suffering is that I don't like it.