Dull Academic Incessant Liturgical Yapping: Philosophical Orations on Order & Reaction
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Is this some kind of joke? This has got to be parody, right?
Hello, Subscriber. We're about to do some surgery on your brain. It's urgent. Fatal if left untreated.

You live in an evil society, a heinous state of crime and villainy. We're going to cut out the chunk of your brain that cares what it thinks about you, that cares about being successful within it, that respects its standards. Definitionally, most of the High Church of Official Truth's standards will be poor ones, so as long as you can find different, better standards to live up to, your life will improve.

Goodnight.

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The surgery was a success, dear Subscriber. You can't get an important job? The People's Socialist Democratic Proletarian Republic of Washington has handed a bunch of money and important and respected positions to blacks, immigrants, and sexual degenerates? You no longer care.

Before, you fought back. You angrily shouted up at your rulers. "This is America! The greatest country on Earth! Follow the Constitution! Give me what's mine!"

Now, you politely nod. "The Bureau of Managed Chaos murdered half a million children last year... I think I'd rather be a loser."

Welcome to your new life.
If you make the error of regarding evil as substantial, you will start to find arguments plausible such as "Good mixed with evil is actually better than just good, because there's more there" or "because it creates more variety".

Mixing evil into good doesn't make more stuff, it ruins the stuff that was there.
Will Trump assert control over the USDA? I'm placing my quarter on "no."
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For the non-neet bros out there.
5 interviews in exchange for 6 weeks of applying and making phone calls is still practically nothing, man.

But on the other hand, you really only need one interview to go well.
Interesting video that showed up in my feed that criticizes kratom usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLObpcBR2yw.

One thing that strikes me as odd, though, is how this guy seems to have a psychologized explanation for all of his personal failings. "Oh, I have a hard time starting and/or completing tasks? That's ADHD."

Instead of framing simple human choices as such, this attitude puts them in a medical box. "You don't start things you should start? Those old folks will tell you that you should work on developing your discipline, control yourself, improve your character, etc. No. What you need is actually some methylphenidate to stimulate your nervous system."

Do you see how creepy this attitude is?
The idea of writer's block, in its ordinary sense,
Exists largely because of the notion that writing should flow.

But if you accept that writing is hard work,
And that's what it feels like while you're writing,
Then everything is just as it should be.
Your labor isn't a sign of defeat.
It's a sign of engagement.
The difference is all in your mind, but what a difference.

The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure.
It's simply the nature of the work itself.

For the writer, the word "flow" is a trap.
So is any word that suggests that writing is a spontaneous emission.
Writing doesn't flow unless you're plagiarizing or collecting cliches or enlisting volunteer sentences.

You'll experience certain kinds of suddenness as you work:
The illusion that time is passing quickly,
An episode of unusual mental clarity,
An almost unnoticed transition from one mood to another.

The piece you're working on may take a jump forward,
And you notice the jump instead of the hours and days of thinking that enabled it.
Everything may flow when you're setting thoughts down on paper.
But that's jotting, not writing.

"Flow" means effusion, a spontaneous outpouring of sentence.
But what it really, secretly means is easy writing.

The more you know about making sentences, the easier it is to fix them.
To get out of trouble, to find the really good sentences—
The better sentences—hiding beneath the skin of your thinking.
What matters isn't how fluidly the sentences are emitted.
Only how good they are.

It's easy to believe in "flow" if you can't feel the difference between a dead sentence and a living one.
Or see the ambiguities you're accidentally creating.

In other words, "flow" is often a synonym of ignorance and laziness.
It's a sign of haste, the urge to be done.
The kid is right. Stories don't begin and end, they simply are—they simply exist. Being.