Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

...in the sense that they actually grasped well in advance that whatever they're doing now would not be something they would enjoy, but they did it anyway, and they're doing it anyway, and somehow the idea that they could plausibly stop and do something else is subversive AF

It's a funny thing. I'm a dropout with a swiss cheese work history. Just about the only things I'm actually qualified for are skipping in parks and reading books and thinking strange thoughts, & it's not hard to find people who want to help *me* do that, but *they* just... can't?

I'm pulling my next project together rn, a big warehouse loft to fill with toys that I'm unofficially calling the Oakland Academy for Remedial Weirdos

This is how so many of us became remedial weirdos. I think we can catch up, but right now there are few social/cultural/physical spaces for it. And the very hard work of embracing the initial fear is something each person has to choose for themselves first https://mobile.twitter.com/ed_pointsman/status/1151469786670477314 …

It can take a very long time to figure out that life is NOT "boring and futile," but it's certainly possible for *a* life to be. The additional energy required to achieve escape velocity is variable, but all sorts of people have done it, and some are very close at this moment

What I'm *not* saying is that every single thing a person does can be the direct cause for a new moment of Perfect Uncomplicated Bliss. But the many rote things we do to make life work do feel very different when doing them in service of a chosen & fully enjoyed life of the mind

AFAICT it requires a practiced intuition to figure out which rote things need doing & which we do out of habit for purposes that don't make much sense. But the better the intuition gets, the more enjoyable these things get. Most tasks aren't "objectively" unenjoyable