THE GARDEN OF THE AFTERLIFE
In the instant between breath and silence,
a garden blooms where time has no roots.
There, every question finds its peace
before ever being spoken.
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🦅 Cheyenne Isa ₿ 🦅
Men in groups don’t want to look vulnerable for the same tactical reasons. Men don’t want to be associated with vulnerable-looking, fearful men in a group context, because men signalling weakness or cowardliness make the whole group look vulnerable. Appearing to be afraid lowers your value to the group. On the other hand, demonstrating courage makes you a more valuable member of the group. Men don’t want to be seen as being afraid, because their value as men, their identity — their honor — is closely tied to having a reputation for being willing and able to process and overcome fear.
Jack Donovan
"Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only the one who has consciously given up on it, is capable of living. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment."
Ernst Junger, The Glass Bees.
Digital mechanisms manipulating youth desires:
- Ads creating artificial needs
- Influencers promoting unsustainable lifestyles
- Algorithms exploiting teenage insecurities
Guard the authenticity of desires before they get colonized.
“We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements. In this society that has been more imaginative, probably, than any other in creating devious and supple mechanisms of power, the law operates more and more as a norm.”
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish.
