Sometimes sticking to a direction requires changing vehicles. If you ever go to the Top of Europe in Switzerland, you’ll change trains twice on the same track. From broad gauge to narrow gauge to a funicular. Really cool btw.
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There’s something like personal conservation laws. Things that stay constant for you.
Know thyself = grok your conserved quantities.
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Rule: The most acting-dead part of you is generally in charge
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This is why the call it dead reckoning
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Actually crowds don’t turn either. Instead some old members die and new young members enter on quasi-random new headings so average vector does a sort of slow random walk.
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The most alive people are the ones who turn, to align with the deadest people (“leaders”) they can project their desired direction on because living energy is scary to own directly. The most powerful leaders are the literally dead ones, aka martyrs, Straussian greats etc.
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I don’t think the Motivational Speakers Bureau is going to accept my membership application 💀
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In case you think I’m kidding... no. Been dead walking in this direction for a while 🧟♂️
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This is my Dead Great Man theory 😵
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Optimal aliveness is not 100%. More like 84%. The dead part leads via crashing, unsteered momentum. The live part is dragged along screaming for its own good. “Acting dead” is really when the live part tries to lead the dead part. Never works. Turns into a drag.
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Deadness is social currency in NYC. The harder you work, the less you sleep, the more drugs you need = success.

