“If we cannot go back, it hardly seems worth while to go forward. There is nothing in front but a flat wilderness of standardization either by Bolshevism or Big Business.”
— G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity, 1926
@CNYCentral Don't ask us, we're uninformed.
Except that Biden did make a lot of public appearances, I mean, and if a person mentally noted his condition at each, they could interpret the change over time and make a conclusion...
But anyway, I'm sure this poll will be informative.
@CNYCentral A poll?
I was kind of hoping there were like, professionals whose job it was to phone around, check published records, generally investigate and journal about and ultimately publish their findings about current and recent past events...
@wrathofgnon Thank you for posting and thank God for Chesterton. Always an edifying read, and always challenging to my mental categories of "left/right" etc. An adept inverter, he was.
human civilization is much older than history. you should stop worrying about the end of everything and start worrying about how you can help yourself and the people you love.
boundaries with yourself look like:
⁃having a bedtime
⁃not believing all thoughts as truth
⁃sticking to your non-negotiables
⁃staying disciplined
⁃sticking to your word
“As a young child, before I understood the words authoritarian or dehumanizing, I thought there was something terribly wrong with a place where I had to raise my hand to go to the bathroom.” - Bruce Levine
This has been one of the hardest years of my life, as well as one full of moments of truer presence and enjoyment, of both the pleasure and pains of sentience, that I have ever known. Alchemical nigredo. Let's f'n goooooo.
Become a ghost for 6 months.
Make everything your fault.
Find the beast within you.
Throw yourself into pain.
Cut out all the excuses.
Go all in on yourself.
Train like a warrior.
Work like a robot.
Eat like a king.
Reject vices.
Transform.
Upgrade.
Create.
Thrive.
Win.
The great German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born #onthisday in 1749. As well as penning novels, poetry, criticism, and dramas, he also wrote various scientific treatises, including his 1810 book Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours): https://t.co/WaX0CdKpa2 #OTD