Art dies the moment it hits the timeline.
Anything posted is for some goal: money, influence, sex.
True art has no agenda.
It never sees the light of day except by accident or divine intervention. What the world calls “artists” today are nothing more than snake oil salesmen.
We are quite literally ONLY drawn to things that allow us to escape being human.
Gambling, Sex, Drugs, Music, War.
We want to escape ourselves so bad.
There really is not much time left.
New newsletter: THE MONKS IN THE CASINO
In the last few decades, the pro-social life script for many young people—date, marry, buy a house, have a kid—has become more expensive.
Meanwhile, the anti-social life script—e.g., posting, porn, parlays—has become easier, cheaper, frictionless.
This has created an unusual inversion of risk. Today's young people—and young men, in particular—have become more risk averse in the physical world and more risk-seeking in the digital world. They date less, and gamble more. They find intimacy scary and betting exciting. They furnish their rooms like high-tech monasteries and gravitate toward media that works like a slot machine.
I don't think young men suffer from a "loneliness crisis." I think the problem is bigger and stranger than that. They are choosing to be alone, because economics and technology have made aloneness feel easy and togetherness feels anxious. The result: A generation of monks in a casino.
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I cured myself of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia quite literally means you are possessed by a demon.
You cure schizophrenia by giving it to someone else.
The victim must be in physical proximity to you and sedated, ideally under the influence of marijuana or psychedelics.
god cannot be recognized.
what you perceive as god could just as easily be a demon.
so how can one "find god"? they can't.
they really are finding the IDEA of god.