Don’t be afraid to fool yourself into thinking that life is meaningful and that, against all odds, *you* have an important part to play in the world.
If it’s all meaningless you‘ll have done no harm lying to yourself. And if by some chance this matters, you will waste less time.
Spoiler Alert: our entire society is built on work done by people who lived lives that make us now squirm.
You‘re tearing your own skin in hopes of ridding yourself of melanoma. Stop trying to purify yourself. We‘re permanently impure. Infected. This will never work. Deal w/ it.
When you cheer because someone you dislike gets banned from Twitter, you are cheering unnamed Bay Area apparatchiks seizing greater and greater power to dictate what you're allowed to see, using increasingly inscrutable and subjective criteria. People really want this?