The quickest way to “get your spark back” is to literally light yourself on fire. You’ve got to burn baby. You’re depressed bc you’re not being insane enough. Double. Down. The world does not reward half ass. All in or out. You’re thinking too small. You’ve accepted your current reality as the only reality. Bullshit. You need to write a list of the most insane asks you could ever dream of. “I am a NYT best selling author. I am the founder of a Fortune 500 company. I paint for a living and I make a damn good living.” Ask and you shall receive. Embody and you become. Flip the fucking script. Your current ceiling is now the floor. Level up.
You need to burn.
Erin Brockovich on data centers: “You’re pushing people too far at this point. You’re taking their water. Their air is jeopardized. Their land is jeopardized. Their sanctuary is jeopardized. Their wildlife is jeopardized. The trees, the rivers, the creeks, the birds, all of it”
Because American Evangelical Christianity is not a religion and has nothing to do with Jesus. It's a political movement meant to entrench repressive white male hegemony at the behest of moneyed interests.
Hip hop carries on one of the oldest storytelling traditions. Before The Iliad and The Odyssey were written, rhapsodes performed them from memory using rhythm, repetition, and performance. Today's rappers use many of those same techniques to tell stories and preserve culture.
The kids can’t read and comprehend, well it’s our job to fix that. We as a collective should be ashamed of that. We know the government doesn’t care so now what? We just gonna let them turn into a bunch of prisoners when 4-6 hours of our time a month could change that?
Greece is closer to Africa than Dallas is to Austin, but illiterate C students who barely skimmed the Cliff Notes version of The Odyssey in HS, who wouldn't be able to point out Greece on a map, and who fundamentally don't understand the concept of artistic license, are triggered
Recon will investigate Depression 2 this aft and that info will help with forecast models. It is dealing with dry air and wind shear. That’s good. Right now looks like heaviest rain will stay offshore. Rain chances go up here Mon-Fri, still hot. #nola#lawx
The National Hurricane Center now gives the Gulf disturbance a high chance of formation. Residents in Louisiana and Mississippi are likely to go under Tropical Storm Watches or Warnings soon. #lawx
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.