ॐ Sam Blonde

ProfessionalMisfit:Writer📝Screenwriter🎬🎥Photographer📷Artist🎨Interior Designer🏠Activist✊🏼Bohemian✌🏼Vagabond🌍Raconteur🗣️Existentialist🧟‍♀️🧠Spiritual🕉️☯☮️LoneWolf🐺

[The Last Homely House @AHomelyHouse]

I truly believe that the optimal way forward is embracing a Dark Age Mindset. This means:
- Embracing Decline as Opportunity. When the foundations of familiar institutions are shaken, it's a signal to us to stop investing so much effort and dependence on those things, and create new alternatives that actually serve us as people and communities.
-Cultivating Resilient Character and Faith. The folks who did this before were not weak, fragile, or wishy-washy. Get hard.
-Preserve and Transmit Knowledge. If institutions that have historically been responsible for this (looking at you, media and schools) are failing, then it's another opportunity for us to step into decentralized roles as stewards of cultural patrimony, preserving literacy, classical texts, and traditions and educating our own children with this heritage to ensure continuity in a potentially post-literate or tech-degraded world.
-Pursuing Self-Sufficiency and Simplicity. "Ora et labora" was the motto that drove that age forward and upward. But they showed us that simplicity needn't be minimalist or ugly; some of the most durable and beautiful things ever made came from these times.
-Reject Dooming and Be Proactive. No despair. Instead, simplify your processes, improve your skills, and meet your challenges vigorously.
-Foster Creativity in Adversity. Necessity is the mother of invention. But the human person is not merely mechanical; we need beauty, music, good stories, living rituals, significance... Cultivate these things especially in the face of monopolized artificiality.
-Focus on Local and Subsidiarist Action. Subsidiarity is handling matters at the smallest, most local level possible; create "schools for service" (as Benedict did) that prioritize family, home culture, nature, and education over distant, failing institutions. The more responsibility you take up over all the spheres of your living experience, the more you step into sovereignty.

[ॐ Sam Blonde @SamBlonde]

THIS 👇🏼

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

As a kid, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Poltergeist (which we all know was actually directed by Spielberg), were some of my favorite movies, but my absolute top tier favorites were sci fi/adventure stories like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Wrath of Khan, ET, Ghostbusters as well as victory parables like Rocky and Karate Kid, and all the John Hughes comedies. These films have down moments but what they end on is hope. That's a very important reason why I got into movies in the first place - those happy endings and the sense that the world is a good place. Indy lost the Ark but got the girl. Luke had his hand cut off but he shared hope with Leia and the droids. Kirk lost Spock but somehow life would flourish.

When I look back on the '80s, the lesson wasn't that the world was bleak like horror movies - struggle would happen, but everything would be ok. The greatest gift the movies gave me was optimism. Life is an adventure not a nightmare.

[ॐ Sam Blonde @SamBlonde]

A creative mind will experience the most beautiful yet torturous levels of madness. The Art lies within that. Those who do not experience it can never understand it.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

He was sent to a mental hospital three times and later became one of the world's top-selling authors. His most popular book has sold over 150 million copies and has been translated into more than 80 languages.

They tied him to a table and turned on the electricity. He was just a teenager whose only crime was wanting to be a writer instead of a lawyer. His panicked parents thought his creative mind was a sign of insanity and committed him to a psychiatric institution three times.

Yet, decades later, that same man sat down and wrote a book that would change the world in just fourteen days.

His name is Paulo Coelho, and his story proves that our harshest critics are often completely wrong about our future.

In 1988, Paulo poured his soul into a simple fable about a shepherd boy chasing a dream in the desert. He called it "The Alchemist." He knew it was special, but the publishing world didn't care.

The first publishing house to print the book watched it sit on the shelves gathering dust. Sales were so poor that they officially dropped it and gave him back the rights.

They told him the book was a complete failure. Anyone else would have given up right then. After all, the experts had spoken out. But Paulo had survived actual electroconvulsive therapy; he wasn't going to let a rejection letter stop him.

He firmly believed in the central message of his book, which states that when you want something, the universe conspires to help you.

He refused to give up. Paulo found a second publisher willing to give him a chance, and then something wonderful happened. It wasn't a resounding success due to a massive and expensive marketing campaign. The book grew slowly, almost whispering.

One person read it, felt a change in their heart, and passed it on to a friend. That friend passed it on to another.

Soon, that whisper turned into a roar.

The book traveled from the streets of Brazil to the entire world. Today, The Alchemist is one of the most successful books in human history. It has sold over 150 million copies and has been translated into more than 80 languages.

It sits on the desks of the most powerful world leaders and in the backpacks of penniless students.

If Paulo had listened to his parents, he would have spent his life as an unhappy lawyer. If he had listened to his first publisher, his masterpiece would have been lost forever. Instead, he chose to trust his inner voice.

He showed the world that the only true failure in life is refusing to begin the journey, or giving up the moment someone says no.

Your current difficulties are not a punishment. They are simply preparation for the wonderful things that await you along the way.

Keep moving forward, because the world is waiting for your story.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

you need to start visualising

[Swan @AndySwan]

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

[Captain Doombeard @CDoombeard]

The most Japanese man encounters the most American situation, and writes of his experience in the most elegant way I have ever seen

I am inspired. I wish I could have written this, but this man writes better truth than I could have written as fiction.

Thank you, Nobunaga-san.

[The Timeless Traveler @TimelessTrvlr]

Old libraries are proof that people once believed knowledge deserved beauty around it.

[Muse @xmuse_]

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
— Walter Cronkite

The Abbey Library of St Gall, founded around the year 719.

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

until death, all defeat is psychological

[kevin singh @McSapra]

sorry guys 😒

[Mah🍒 Ⓐ⋆˚ ⁷ @mahcherrys]

"Aquele bebê que ela abortou poderia ter curado o câncer!!"

As mulheres no Afeganistão que não têm permissão para falar também poderiam, mas você parece não se importar com isso

[Blake ™ @NeilNevins]

surgeries in 2035 to remove microplastics from your body and they let you go home with the statue they made out of them

[ॐ Sam Blonde @SamBlonde]

If you need evidence of how the elites have destroyed our health by cutting corners/paying off scientists/bypassing human/environmental safety for money. It is microplastics. We have NO idea longterm consequences as it is EVERYWHERE in EVERYONE. Therefore no control group exists.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Henry Nowak’s father, Mark, was clear that Henry was the victim of two-tier policing.

White boy cuffed and not believed, left to die.
Brown man not cuffed even when under arrest and taken to the kitchen to choose food at the police station.

“The contrast is unbearable.”
Yes.

[ॐ Sam Blonde @SamBlonde]

I have anosmia (no sense of smell) so if that’s a biological red flag for self preservation - then I’m screwed.

[nima astria @1likeaverage]

if u dont like someone's natural scent u are biologically not supposed to be together and no amount of hygiene and cologne etc can fix that

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

bad people getting away with everything was my greatest adult disappointment discovery

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Karl Popper, this one is absolute gold

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[ℜ𝔞𝔢 @dystopiangf]

You need to get into the habit of quite literally rebuking certain words. Language is the most weakly defended entry point to the mind/soul; it isn’t grounded in reality like our senses. There are phrases that were designed to have power over you upon hearing them; rebuke them!