“Exact. We must demand of each one what each one can give. Authority rests first on reason. If thou commandest thy people to go throw themselves into the sea, they shall make a revolution. I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable.” “Here is my secret. It is very simple. One sees only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” “You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he said again. You cannot die for you. Of course, my rose, an ord
Is religion cope? A tool for oppression? My friend asks where I got that from. Playboi carti is hypnotizing us with psychoacoustics. When there's a constant repeating melody, it gets tuned out and then every new adlib or 808 is like hypersensitive Woah , where did you learn that from? Tiktok, and tiktok. The words feel cheap in my mouth, like I’m outing myself as low grade, phone addicted, bargain-bin intellect. Why is it embarrassing when it is the media I choose to con
I had this notion once, half consolation, half conceit, that if I suffered and “awakened” early, if I tuned myself finely to all the invisible strings of spirituality and self before anyone else, then later life would part for me like curtains. While everyone else was staggering through their quarter, mid, or late life crises, I’d be there already, a little smug perhaps, already on the other side “cruising”. It was comforting to think my pain had bought me something, that m
