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[David @daviddripovic]

@kansim12 @LuigiAdsertor It’s not a crime, of course. But you don’t find it extremely suspicious? Far from home in a small town where he has no reason to be, carrying a manifesto on him (who does that?), with foreign currency on him + giving a fake identity to the police when questioned.

[David @daviddripovic]

@mr_nordle @LuigiAdsertor Well, i think it’s very simple. He carried the manifesto around in case he failed to escape/was killed by police in NYC so they could be his “last words” as a political martyr

[David @daviddripovic]

@hyxeratox @LuigiAdsertor After his arrest, Luigi claimed that only the gun was planted on him, not the manifesto.

[David @daviddripovic]

@Mothpebble When I was 10 years old staying up to watch adult swim this shit always pissed me off

[David @daviddripovic]

@_rabbi thats the nastiest looking vein I’ve ever seen, I don’t even wanna look at it

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Men admire in women masculine virtues (self-accountability, logic, composure, self-command) expressed through feminine embodiment - not as an imitation of man, but as a refinement of character.

Women admire in men feminine virtues (empathy, tenderness, intuition, receptivity) expressed through masculine embodiment - not as softness without toughness, but as completeness.

So each sex seeks the best of its own principle integrated in the opposite, their natural polarity preserved but elevated.

Men and women are thus seeking the best of themselves in their opposite in stable contrast - a marriage within so there can be a marriage between - recursive union - what beauty!

[David @daviddripovic]

@yh6wyexwx726q38 A little unfair not to include the “clues” in the original post of the puzzle, no?

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

In modern Western society we have reached a point at which we try to get by without acknowledging inner life at all. We act as though there were no unconscious, as though we could live full lives by fixating ourselves completely on the external, material world. ~RA Johnson

[literland @literlandweb1]

"Cuando un muchacho de 14 ó 15 años descubre que es más dado a la introspección y a la conciencia de sí mismo que la mayoría de los chicos de su misma edad, incurre fácilmente en el error de creer que ello se debe a que ha alcanzado una madurez superior a la de sus compañeros. Ciertamente cometí ese error. En realidad, aquella tendencia a la introspección se debía, en mi caso, a que yo tenía mayor necesidad que los demás de comprenderme a mí mismo. Ellos podían comportarse de acuerdo con su natural manera de ser, en tanto que yo debía interpretar un papel, lo cual exigía notable comprensión y estudio de mí mismo. En consecuencia, no se debía a la madurez, sino a mi sensación de incertidumbre, de incomodidad, que era la que me obligaba a tener pleno conocimiento de mí. Esa conciencia era un puente que me llevaba a la aberración, y, entonces mi manera de pensar tenía que limitarse a la incertidumbre, a la formulación de hipótesis."
"Confesiones de una máscara", Yukio Mishima

[David @daviddripovic]

@194theNod @Aella_Girl ^also why there’s so few female refs/coaches in men’s sports, why there’s controversy when women are promoted to military command, religions have male priestly castes, etc

[David @daviddripovic]

@194theNod @Aella_Girl I agree that men don’t view women as legitimate “competition” but that just makes having a female boss all the more infuriating for a man- “why does this person I consider inferior have authority over me?”

Same reason female teachers face much more disrespect from students

[David @daviddripovic]

@dookie_papa @dyingscribe “Suspect’s best friends are her students”

[David @daviddripovic]

@tenobrus respect @GianmarcoSoresi

[moneyfetishist @moneyfetishist]

spent the last few hours answering questions from strangers on the internet while sitting on a plane and the thing that keeps striking me is how similar every question sounds once you strip away the context

the BB analyst making $200K wants to know if his life has meaning. the 20-year-old in a frat wants to know if he is on the right path. the guy running a $15M environmental services company cannot sleep because his leverage ratio scares him even though his covenants are fine. the first-year law student wants someone to tell him the career pivot will work out. the immigrant who got laid off wants to know he is not falling behind permanently

the details are different. the feeling underneath is identical. am I going to be okay

we pretend that money and status and titles fix this. they do not. I sit in rooms with people who control nine-figure portfolios and they are nervous about the same things as everyone else. they just have more expensive language for it. the fund manager calls it "risk management." the analyst calls it "career strategy." the 20-year-old calls it "figuring out my path." same anxiety wearing different suits

I watched a grown man worth more than most people will earn in ten lifetimes throw a tantrum in a conference room because someone questioned his assumption in a model. not his competence. not his track record. an assumption in a spreadsheet. a cell in Excel. he turned red and raised his voice because for 15 seconds he felt like he might be wrong about something and his entire identity could not absorb that possibility

that is not a professional disagreement. that is a kid on a playground who got told he is not the fastest runner

Schopenhauer wrote that humans are not rational beings who occasionally feel emotions. we are emotional beings who occasionally think rationally. the rationality is the exception. the feeling is the baseline. every framework we build in finance and in business and in life is an attempt to impose order on a brain that is fundamentally running on fear and desire and the need to be seen as competent by other people who are also running on fear and desire

the most dangerous version of this is the person who thinks they have outgrown it. the one who believes that enough success or enough money or enough status has made them rational. that person is not more rational. they are less accountable. nobody around them pushes back anymore so the irrational impulses go unchecked and get rebranded as conviction and vision and leadership

the best operators I know are the ones who understand that they are still unreasonable kids underneath everything. they lose their temper over small things. they take criticism personally even when it is constructive. they make emotional decisions and reverse-engineer a logical justification after the fact. the difference is they know they do this. they have systems to catch it. they hire people who are allowed to tell them when they are being stupid. they build in a 24-hour delay before any decision made while angry

the worst operators are the ones who think they have evolved past it. they confuse pattern recognition with wisdom. they confuse wealth with emotional maturity. they confuse the silence of the people around them with agreement when it is actually just fear

Nietzsche said that the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do. I think the more common form is forgetting what one is. which is a complicated animal that learned to use spreadsheets but never stopped being afraid of the dark

none of us outgrow being unreasonable. the question is whether we build a life that accounts for it or one that pretends it does not exist

thanks for the questions today. you are all going to be fine. even the ones who do not feel like it right now

[priscilla (alt) @seashell_luvr]

They have an unintegrated anima. Men go through horrors too, but a lot of them never actually process it or acknowledge their emotions. Their emotional world is so underdeveloped that they can only access feeling, soul, color, and depth THROUGH a woman.

So when a relationship ends, it’s not just a loss, it’s like losing their only connection to their inner world, to life, soul, and Eros.

And instead of seeing the breakup as initiation, they’ll often discard that side of themselves entirely, becoming cynical, ornery, romanticizing the past while being unable to actually re-enter vulnerable life in the present, reducing women to functions and resenting them for having access to something he abandoned.

[David @daviddripovic]

@PaulSkallas Also helps that those doctors generally grew up in/around the area they practice…lot different than being shipped off to a part of your state (or even a different state) you’ve never lived in

[PS @dostoevesque]

You have built an entire identity around being someone who could succeed if they tried. That identity is a warm blanket. Real action is a cold shower. When you finally attempt something, you risk losing the story that has comforted you for years. What if you try and discover you are average? What if you try and find no special talent? This is not fear of failure. This is fear of ordinariness. So you stay in the planning phase forever. You buy the notebook. You watch the tutorial. You tell friends your idea. Anxiety spikes whenever someone asks for a deadline. You are not protecting your future. You are protecting a fantasy that has already expired.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

the meanest thing you do to yourself is pretend you don’t want the things you want. shrink the desire before anyone can see it. call it unrealistic before someone else does. and then walk around with this low grade starvation you can’t name because you buried the appetite so deep even you forgot where you put it. wanting things is dangerous. I know. it opens you up to disappointment and to looking foolish and to reaching for something that might not reach back. want it anyway. the alternative is a life of pretending you’re full.

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.~Joseph Campbell, 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵