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“I feel like a lost survivor into a new alien world after the real world has passed away.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien to C.S. Lewis (Letter 332)
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Contrary to popular belief, most things that happen in the U.S. happen outside of the paradigm of two-party politics. That’s why modern media makes the world feel so small — because the space it occupies is shrunken.
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I’m sorry, but hackers remotely turning off refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets and destroying all their fresh and frozen food is INSANE. We’ve connected so much of our physical world to the internet that apparently even keeping milk cold is now a cybersecurity problem. What the actual hell.
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every day the pope is posting absolute bangers. that’s american excellence
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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You'll fall deeper in love when you realize that your lover doesn't exist to satisfy your every whim and desire and it's not their responsibility to provide everything lacking in your life, like some kind of divinely ordained human-shaped vending machine. When you let go of this, and just focus on loving them, that's the secret doorway to getting everything you ever wanted.
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He is by far the public figure who is most sane and consistent about this, who understands the moment, the philosophy, the theology and even the math.
“We live in the age of search engines that offer us thousands of instantaneous answers. Yet, no matter how powerful they may be, they merely return what already exists and tend to give us what we already want. In the age of technology and consumerism, the great danger is not only censorship but also homogenization, and not merely imposed silence but the noise that makes it impossible to listen.
“Art is a different kind of ‘search engine.’ It does not proceed by indexing but by inquiry. Indeed, its inquiry is a focused attention that is not satisfied with the mere sum of facts, for it never ceases to dig deeper, seeking the thread that unites them. Your art, when it resists homogenization, when it draws our gaze, when it compels us to pause before that which cannot be consumed, is a form of cultural and spiritual regeneration.” — Pope Leo XIV
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You are moving to the woods and buying canned food & ammo because you fear ASI is imminent. I am doing that because I fear ASI isn’t even close & we’re just gonna have a world-ending credit crisis instead. We are not the same.
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Here the focus is on whole-body experience. The world remains the world. But, trend-wise, technological developments have tended to be in the realm of thought and abstraction. And the world has often become less real as a consequence.
