when i was studying astrophysics, plato’s timaeus (τίμαιος) kept returning to me. its idea that the cosmos is ordered through mathematical proportion rather than chaos feels strikingly close to modern physics.
once you turn 20 you have to fight everyday for the rest of your life to not lose your personality & spirit...bc what once came naturally to you will be exhausted into nothing if you don't actively Try. it's terrifyingly easy to become a lethargic, soulless adult
There is a wound that won't heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.
americans would spontaneously combust before ever viewing anything from a pov other than their own selfish self centered western mindset. a world and living humans outside of the US just don't exist to them.
Kind of sentiment where I realize I would be fine dying in a gutter. If this belief structure is what society amounts to, I don't know why I should feel shame at the margins. Living in a cardboard box would be more dignified than embracing this attitude.
If you're defending a country that elected a pogromist as Prime Minister, where the ruling party believes Muslims are second class & need to be humiliated, where millions have been stripped off voting rights and citizenship, which violently occupies regions... You're a cretin.