What you’re saying, Tom, about picking up a vibe from old objects and places, I’m so on board! Old places, especially, feel charged with loving warmth or, quite the opposite.
When my son’s father and I were on our honeymoon, we’d not pre-booked anyplace we were going to stay past the first night. We picked out a different place each night. In one of the older places we’d checked into the feeling in the hallways was so suffocatingly dark to me that I had to leave. (Picture Jack Nicholson grinning vibe…) He didn’t pick up on it and we exchanged some words…as a new bride, I was much more pliable than my crotchety old self is now, but I didn’t budge. We left.
I think it’s possible that sometimes objects and places retain something of what happened, or … I don’t know… but I wholeheartedly concur with what you said.
Like Jordan & Mal, I also despise the commercialization of anything like this: exploiting and monetarily gaining from real beliefs and spirituality, whether or not we agree, is a horrifically parasitic thing to participate in on any level.
NPC is definitely condescending. As a HS teacher, one of the concepts I put out there, is that choice is central to human existence and choice is what separates humans from other organisms. (There is a lot to talk about there also.) Calling someone an NPC negates their humanity because you are saying that they are making 0 choices, not even choosing to not choose. The audacity of relegating another being to only survival responses and nothing else.
This is a great point. True agency, not only to choose what we want, but to choose what we want to want, seems to me to be the most fundamental attribute of our humanity.
The so called smart phone has made us all more socially retarded as we scroll our lives away - when we do get into social up close situations, awkward vibes occur based on this disconnected internet reality that has ruled societies since early 2000s and caused massive social disruption and depression etc..
Scrolling our lives away... That hits hard for me. Last week, I once again deleted the handful of apps I tend to turn to when I'm bored. Boredom is just what happens when you forget you're alive.
Mic drop?! I feel as if my life has reached a level of fulfillment that may never be surpassed… or, maybe it’s simply a challenge to see what additional levels may exist.
Thank you for sharing my comments, and apologies to Tom for not seeing your comment and question until early this morning.
What you’re saying, Tom, about picking up a vibe from old objects and places, I’m so on board! Old places, especially, feel charged with loving warmth or, quite the opposite.
When my son’s father and I were on our honeymoon, we’d not pre-booked anyplace we were going to stay past the first night. We picked out a different place each night. In one of the older places we’d checked into the feeling in the hallways was so suffocatingly dark to me that I had to leave. (Picture Jack Nicholson grinning vibe…) He didn’t pick up on it and we exchanged some words…as a new bride, I was much more pliable than my crotchety old self is now, but I didn’t budge. We left.
I think it’s possible that sometimes objects and places retain something of what happened, or … I don’t know… but I wholeheartedly concur with what you said.
Like Jordan & Mal, I also despise the commercialization of anything like this: exploiting and monetarily gaining from real beliefs and spirituality, whether or not we agree, is a horrifically parasitic thing to participate in on any level.
What you did there — even in your youth — was trust your instinct. That’s our deepest humanity and truest guide.
NPC is definitely condescending. As a HS teacher, one of the concepts I put out there, is that choice is central to human existence and choice is what separates humans from other organisms. (There is a lot to talk about there also.) Calling someone an NPC negates their humanity because you are saying that they are making 0 choices, not even choosing to not choose. The audacity of relegating another being to only survival responses and nothing else.
This is a great point. True agency, not only to choose what we want, but to choose what we want to want, seems to me to be the most fundamental attribute of our humanity.
The so called smart phone has made us all more socially retarded as we scroll our lives away - when we do get into social up close situations, awkward vibes occur based on this disconnected internet reality that has ruled societies since early 2000s and caused massive social disruption and depression etc..
Scrolling our lives away... That hits hard for me. Last week, I once again deleted the handful of apps I tend to turn to when I'm bored. Boredom is just what happens when you forget you're alive.
Mic drop?! I feel as if my life has reached a level of fulfillment that may never be surpassed… or, maybe it’s simply a challenge to see what additional levels may exist.
Thank you for sharing my comments, and apologies to Tom for not seeing your comment and question until early this morning.
Very excited to see future "essays" in this archive you are creating.
Also, some of what you have talked about feels like Transhumanism - would love hearing ya'll discuss that sometime in the future
(AGREED on scary doll stuff - nooooo thanks)
Oh, we'll definitely be talking transhumanism sometime soon.