A β€œracist” is someone winning an argument with a liberal, but a racist is someone who evaluates individuals not by their own deeds but the deeds of others with whom they share some ancestry. The former you can ignore, the latter is a type of collectivist whose views are antithetical to freedom and prosperity. For if someone can be classified and judged by the deeds of others, so can you. View quoted note β†’
Went to a furniture design showroom yesterday. Very high end, way out of my range. Like 300K for a table. Some of it was nice, some not. But it occurred to me some of the designs would just not have occurred to me as a possibility.
Had this idea my job was just to notice and post shit for which the only β€œmarket” is people who want to think about things they might not otherwise have considered.
Sometimes I imagine I’m watching a movie and things unfold cinematically, frame by frame. Like a word-class cinematographer is doing every shot. The East River at dusk, the highway traffic signs, the slow-speed airport traffic, the skinny untrimmed highway-side trees. It all portends something profound but you don’t yet know what, so you notice things.
Sometimes you gotta finish what you’re doing before you can move on, but other times you just need to drop it. Advice fails because the whole game is about discernment, not heuristics.
It’s odd how I get caught up in habits for hours or days, like a zombie and then have moments of crystal clarity where I know exactly what’s up.
Of course I got a scratchy throat after three days of jet lag sleep and the change to windy fall weather. Gonna will myself to kill this off with only the most minor symptoms. Sleep a few hours on the plane, get ready for my Padel tournament tomorrow. Physics rules over biology and mind rules over physics.
The fuck happened to Uptober?