Mazzini’s farewell words were very touching. He asked me where we were going. I replied, “For Lugano, which from all accounts is a sort of Paradise.” He smiled, sighed a little and said, “For youth, Paradise is everywhere.”

- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Alexandrian man [and, to an extent, the modern man] is basically ‘a librarian and proof-reader, sacrificing his sight miserably to book-dust and printing errors¹’

¹The Birth Of Tragedy

Latin: Contra mundum

English: Against the world

Its embarrassing how sassy some guys are these days

اي والزهرة، شيكولون علينا الناس

امتحانات العملي، حرفيًا 😂

Our inner truths are the lies we construct to be able to live with the misery of our actual lives.

- Slavoj Zizek

He was talking about the "narrative" or the life-story that we tell ourselves about us.
Sometimes we try to convince ourselves of some "role" or persona and we lie to ourselves that this is our true identity.

I noticed this for example in med students (though I suspect it happens in any minutely prestigious occupation), since they build their whole life narrative around the idea that they are "doctors."

You can notice it even in depression: people sometimes choose to stay depressed because it has become a part of what they think defines them.

Ours is the age of hero-manufacturing:
Everyone wants to be a hero, no matter how unheroic they really are. So we have made dragons of all sizes (even the size of lizards and flies) for anyone to slay and become a hero.

That's why "trauma" has been growing like weeds: it's everywhere ffs

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I must leave by a hundred stairs,
I must ascend though I hear your cares:
'You are hard: Are we made of stone?'
I must leave by a hundred stairs,
And being a stair appeals to none.

Against arrogance:
Don't let your ego swell too much,
A bubble bursts with just a touch.

سيم