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luka

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I haven't been doing that very well recently. I spend all day on dissensus then I watch a film from the 1980s.
 

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winter withered, warm
Imagine a future, even an unlikely one, wherein a significant body of the populous derives revenue for being human subjects for this or that scientific thesis.

Or perhaps that could be accomplished with a social credit system, by which point social credit could effectively serve as a sort of communistic credential. Over a certain rate, you get these amount of resources for free. And how to you sustain this credit, by adhering to the social guidelines, which may have some kind of democratic establishment.

Anyway I think the only futures in which wider numbers of people have a significant amount of free time, are also the futures in which each person learns to live in more conscientious and less parochial ways.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
I haven't been doing that very well recently. I spend all day on dissensus then I watch a film from the 1980s.
The pits, sure. Unfortunately, the proven means of exiting the pit involves a kind of stoicism, no? A sort of militant and pragmatic pain-taking?
 

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And this militant compartment of your ego can go about willing itself into more rigorous meditative practices, intellectual practices, body exercise, etc. without getting totalitarian and irreversible. Actually, for me it subsides sheerly from exhaustion, until the muscles recuperate.
 

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This is largely why I'm militantly about the attaining of pathos neutralization. You save energy that is otherwise recklessly discharged by arbitrary and myopic impulses.
 

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And once that is attained, you can weave in and out. Should you feel poetic and passionate efforts would be useful. Rather than a one-and-done renunciation of pathos. Will it still, then will it back into motion.
 

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It just seems to make easier things I once saw no end to. Now the endlessness is more manageable. But there's always headroom to optimize into.
 

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I mean the lethargy and the meaninglessness. Desaturate/defang them and integrate them into an indifferent and metastable framework of pragmatic dialectics.

I'm afraid the conceptually heavy stuff is useful for this kind of bootstrapping, provided one can connect such concepts to their mundane and vulgar reality, which you've mentioned here and there.
 

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I mean collapsing the distinction between positive emotion and negative emotion. Joy and ecstasy pumping the handcar on the track of samsara.
 

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All of a sudden happiness can be considered a non-starter, a petty high. Then it becomes easier to resist the kinds of insubstantial hedonia and indulgences that are like feeding a bottomless pit, and attention can be turned to this or that intensive project.
 

constant escape

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And thats largely my idea of communist utopia. Everyone having the free time and the supple energy to pursue intensive projects that will have positive ramifications on the collective.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
You're talking about human beings. Desire, aspiration, chaos, shoes. Still irreducible. Which of these things are Controlled?

They're played to, pitched at, sold to, medicated, malleable to some degree of course by malevolent forces. How do you strategise in a world of narcissism (do you pragmatise as a salesman or a priest?) because Kevin Costner was lying in Field of Dreams.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
I think you can still systematically operationalize things that aren;t fully in the reach of control, but that is where it becomes less of a scientific project and more of a gnostic one. And my confusion of these two modes of mapping is responsible for my lack of clarity.

Anyway it would involve the exploitations of loopholes in your emotive/reward tendencies.

The salesman/priest distinction is interesting, sort of like secular/religious marketing. It often feels like I'm selling psychic strategies in exchange for faith, but I'm fine if the faith isn't provided.

An regarding Costner, I would argue that the pragmatically effective conclusion is "Well, if they didn't come to what I built, whatever I built wasn;t enough."
 
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