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Commercialism in art
I don’t like commercial ideas in art—all that hustle. Sell sell sell. Such elements destroy the essential spirit of art. It looks empty if freedom and independence are taken away, causing low-quality products and internal rot as a result. It’s not great or cool. Like, if you really need money, go make money. Why try…
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Please: Stay flexible and critical—toward yourself and toward the world around you
“Nevertheless, the ancient Greeks already knew that logical thinking is a structured process, to some extent governed by certain laws. These laws can be described. Aristotle systematized syllogisms, and Euclid—geometry; however, many centuries passed before an era of progress in the study of logical thinking arrived again.” Analyzing history, I cannot help but feel my…
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In Music, Only Music
New music is, first of all, new technology. So we shouldn’t expect the same boom of new, classy styles and sounds as in the ’80s and ’90s: back then, the emergence of electronic music and computers was a rare event in its significance—almost like the discovery of electricity itself. People were purely and brightly inspired…
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God
God is within us: it’s the reason’s concept of the absolute ideal—it attempts to rectify its inherent “cause-seeking” mechanisms; it’s also a fusion of some of the reason’s most profound concepts: infinity, perfection; originally conceived through reflections of reality’s experience. God is not something that exists outside in space. We have neither seen nor experienced…
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Models in mind
When I picture the vast universe we live in, I’m not flying through the real thing, of course,—I’m moving inside a reflected copy, a model built from what I’ve learned and experienced, with the mind observing and working on it. The mind isn’t godlike; it simply flows around this model inside a bio-computer, much like…
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Fragility of Large Structures
Any large concentration of people will, in one way or another, face gradual decay in some form. Both technological and physical large-scale systems are destined to collapse, whether they are national states, corporations, or social networks with mega-sites, because they become overly complex, tangled, and bloated. And it is a very rare person who can…
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Cults
The first way to lose weight and get healthy balanced is to end the cult of food—that any sort of pleasure seeking, worship-like or habit attitude toward eating. Eat practically, utilitarianly, and minimally. The first way for society to get better is to end the cult of politics—politicians should simply be public servants, temporary figures…
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Capitalism and Emptiness
It acts like acidity: an insane drive for money and profit in capitalism at any cost that corrodes essences—especially the subtle ones that are not inherently indented to be sold. Why is contemporary American mass-culture (movies) so poor? Because the product must be sold at any price; it cannot be “boring,” there must be no…
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Perfectionism and realism
A wise person would not be just a perfectionist aesthete; wisdom must not only perceive beauty, such as order, but also recognize the realities and essence of destruction and war. Everything in this world has its place, whether we like it or not. In any flow, whether aesthetics, ethics, or politics, the truth of things…
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Contradictions
Conflict and complexity spark motion, edge, and interest. It’s naive to wish for perfect calm and smoothness—human’s story isn’t like that. When you run into the stupid, the dreadful, or the absurd, that’s needed too. The main thing is to spot the contrasts correctly: someone who hasn’t taken in the bad can’t truly understand the…
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Underestimating Attention Today
If you valued your attention, they wouldn’t manipulate you with propaganda so much. Still, corporations shamelessly grab it and sell it, too. Attention is a real resource—it’s your life. I wouldn’t spend it mindlessly.
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Master and Chaos
The real master works with spontaneity and chaos, not endlessly polish second-hand ideas; you can’t ignore it, chaos, random, noise, it’s all a processing of the purity of being; in this, the dynamics serve as the fundamental substrate.
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Hustle Culture
Hustle culture — a product of late-stage capitalism? Not a fact that we must package and sell every single thing we do.
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representation: Image and Essence
The human image, within the shaping of cultural value, bears no less weight than the essence of their creations. Yet an image can barely exist without essence—though at times that essence may remain in shadow; over the long term, essence will always dominate its creators’ image, while in the short term illusions and propaganda can…
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Shifting Responsibility
Passing the blame is the true Klondike of corruption and evil. If an order is foolish, do not obey it.If you’ve erred, admit it. It sounds simple… yet many of us are bound by money, fear, and ensnared in a web of false values. How deeply can we be reprogrammed, how easily even the most…
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The hidden cost of mind’s efficiency seeking
The acceptance of any recommendation — whether good or bad — is often shaped not by conscious evaluation, but by the brain’s tendency toward cognitive economy.It seeks to conserve energy, simplify effort, and reduce complexity wherever possible. That is simply how nature has shaped it. But this built-in bias has many unintended consequences.We must constantly…
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The Hidden Count in All Things
It’s fascinating how the abstraction of the concept of number—perhaps born from something as simple as comparing and generalizing two consecutive actions—could eventually lead to a profound unfolding of calculation, culminating in modern technologies rooted in mathematics (and logic). There must have been that initial moment of discovery—when this numerical abstraction revealed itself. Like a…
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Symmetry, Rights, the Health of Society
Why are equality before the law, genuine justice – adequate, real laws, and a dispersed, neutralized form of power so essential if we truly wish to live well? Because a society’s health depends on symmetry. An asymmetrically arranged post-industrial society—authoritarian rule, oligarchy, the sway of billionaires and dictators—creates an over-weighting and a structural imbalance that…
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Big Tech’s Desperate AI Push
How Big Tech keeps forcing all this hype-ridden AI on us is frankly pathetic. They’ve sunk so much money into the fantasy of magical, human-replacing AI that they’re now scrambling to recoup their investment—whatever it takes. The trouble is, the technology is still crude and clumsy. It could take years to mature and, even then,…
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Suffering, Progress and Understanding
Human systems tend to develop only after some form of suffering—so humanity, it seems, still has much to endure. But it is not suffering itself that leads to growth; it is the experience and understanding gained through it that open the will toward development. In fact, one could avoid suffering and still achieve great progress—but not without…
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Technofeudalism, Data Protection, and AI Regulations
We absolutely need data-protection, real privacy, and AI regulations today. The longer we remain without proper laws, the bigger the mess we will have to fix. The current state of technofeudalism lets random companies monopolize people’s basic needs, shamelessly steal their data, aggressively push bullshit, spread disinformation easily. It’s a big disaster, and some countries…