There exists something known as the mirage of variety, where a person strives to obtain everything – tasting all the dishes, pursuing all romantic interests, visiting all countries, listening to every track, acquiring all the movies, and so on. To begin with, for real – it becomes boring quickly, one can’t experience everything, it’s same the same after all, resulting in a waste of time. Instead, focus on the essence. A human being is not a machine for experiencing tastes. A variety of experiences is important, but even more crucial is critical thinking about what’s happening, the path you’re on, and your ultimate destination. The human mind and time are both limited.
SOME Philosophical aphorisms & critical reflections Daily
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The Mirage of Variety
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Oldschool
Share / Comments: OldschoolIt’s okay to look back and take the best ideas as prototypes for the new. This concept embodies the Renaissance, an infinite eternal return, and self-sustenance – reliable and proven mechanisms of evolution.
We can observe these principles in culture, in mother nature, and in our state of being. I’m primarily referring to culture, but technology is also relevant.
The very new, such as modern pop music or social networks as we once knew them, may have reached a dead end or started off as problematic, only gaining popularity through propaganda or a misplaced emphasis on profits over quality.
It’s valuable to look back, extract the best, use it as base for next generations.
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Untitled
Share / Comments: UntitledDon’t believe anyone on the internet today; do not let your emotions take over the reason. Always double-check facts and sources. There is so much misinformation everywhere these days.
In this modern internet-driven world, we face the dark age of information overload, resource mismanagement, supersaturated ignorance, and greed. Why is this happening? It’s simple: we lack bright minds and genius people in politics. While we’ve made remarkable progress in science, art, and business, politics remains in crisis, yet it’s still a crucial field. Politics is key important thing for the balance of society, management of information and resources flows, rules.
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Nice Groove
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Edges
Share / Comments: EdgesThere must be an edge… otherwise it’s difficult to catch on to the essence (ideas, products, everything)
Limitations are an amplifier of creative power, not only on the part of the creator but also on the part of the consumer.
Always be aware of the limits and edges everywhere.
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Cultural Code Determines Ways of Life
Share / Comments: Cultural Code Determines Ways of LifeJust as DNA directs the essence of an object’s physical development, the cultural code with which an individual is programmed determines their destiny or the destiny of a whole group. A barbaric cultural code leads to decay and suffering. The brain can reprogram itself with other, better codes; a clean ‘freedom’ environment helps reprogram bad elements faster.
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Contemporary jazz
Share / Comments: Contemporary jazzJazz can be not only vintage and classic (78rpm.archive.org collection, for example) but also purely modern (a radio stream link to check).
Not jazzy beats, not barely listenable avant-garde, – real jazz as we used to get it, but modern. The first thing that comes to mind is a straight beat there, more solid, bright groove, but still a lot of sax/piano improvisations come as the main ingredient though.
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Creators, Be Aware
Share / Comments: Creators, Be AwareArtist, painter, musician… Your job is not only to create but also to suffer, to gain a perspective from all angles of existence, to tell the truths of life. A glamorous creator evokes a feeling of deep repugnance… as much as any money-grubbing idiot does; what can they truly tell the world, what benefits can they bring? Showy luxury seems like a thing of resentment to me, both in terms of input and output
Personally, I feel okay and am thankful to fate for various hard trials, including the lack of fame. It gives me more strength to work harder, to remain original and true, and to live a happier, deeper, more balanced life.
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99c
Share / Comments: 99cSuch activity as music does not necessarily mean the scope of market needs, often it is just a hobby, “a talk with god”, but it happens that people manipulate it to gain sales. Anyway, the market is just a representation of people’s needs. The monetary system as we have it today is evil and very inefficient, one day we will obsolete it in favor of other open exchange formats, but still, as long as we see music to be a product to fill needs, it can be distributed in different ways.
Remember simple formula: bad music is music that was made without pure audio pleasure inspiration.
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Impermanence
Share / Comments: ImpermanenceBe ready to lose everything. Nothing physical truly belongs to us; it’s all just temporary rent. Only your mind and your time are yours
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Oversaturation
Share / Comments: OversaturationA new phenomenon of the “post-Internet” era – hypertrophied mass consciousness, mass psychosis, deliberately fueled hysteria
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Dark ages
Share / Comments: Dark agesPolitics today is a middlemen’s zone, smart goes to art or science, mid-range minds go to politics mostly; typically – activists, cops, money-makers… you will rarely meet genius people there, but usually just some lucky mediocre. Don’t mind exceptions, of course.
Sure that’s got reasons behind it, today’s politics seems to be a dull field full of dirt to sort through.
Would be great if we could somehow direct the best minds there, because so many things depend on politics, including phenomenons of masses manipulation, big resources delegation, laws making, etc.
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Сriticism tone
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People who throw dirt criticism on everything are usually self-affirming… but it’s a bad tone, an unfaithful approach.Be beautiful and accurate, discuss/criticize carefully, clearly expressing understanding and openness to the other sides that may be unknown or misunderstood to you.
Anything else, don’t blindly pour buckets of criticism, but try to understand the essence and talk about it from all sides.
Let’s take an example, while being on a side of blind self-affirming critics, it is most convenient to take a “pose” and call today’s AI chatbots a bullshit product, but it is more correct to take both sides dialectically and in addition mention that “Well, guys have created an interesting technology: in general, the results are worthy of attention, but yes it’s still quite young, and there is much excessive mass psychosis around it, empty hype, and the technology is still far from anything revolutionary” – just as an example
Of course there are cases where nothing but bad things can be said, but still, watch your tone of criticism.
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If I am tired
Share / Comments: If I am tiredIf I’m tired – I go for sleep or quality books, maybe a good wise blog or music, or a quiet walk, or a lunch of simple natural foods like vegetables and cereals, these are the things that really help.
Especially sleep and rest, just lying down and doing nothing, – such a rest provides so much energy… just do nothing, absolutely nothing. And no no no to any mass media or social networks, no to news, no sugar, no drugs, all these only makes things worse.
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There is no justice by default, don’t wait for it, fight for the better today
Share / Comments: There is no justice by default, don’t wait for it, fight for the better todayThere is no justice in the world and don’t try to wait for it, sometimes the worst scumbags get everything and the best people suffer, be prepared for the worst, be ready for the fight to get that justice by yourself, nature is not giving it as a served dish by default.
And by the way, suffering in itself is not so bad, it develops us. Stagnation, stupidity and insolence – these are the really bad things.
Act according to the situation and honestly, so that for the better and not just for the better from your stupidity.
Objective quality criteria is the measure.
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Do I really need to know that?
Share / Comments: Do I really need to know that?Some knowledge, while factually correct, is essentially useless.
For example, do I really need to know all that wide range of small political facts? Some information is not needed.
Of course it’s good to know everything, but what about the capacity of the receiver? Our memory and emotional battery ain’t infinitely elastic. That’s why I don’t spend time reading newspapers and social networks, only the best quality essentials and in very little amount.
Also, imagination, emptiness… so important for the mind, let it be.
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GOOD MINIMALISM DESIGN ONLY SEEMS SO BE SO SIMPLE
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Good quality minimalism design only seems so be simple, the effort and time spent on it is sometimes is much more than they put on tricked and complex things out there. -
Touch of time
Share / Comments: Touch of timeOld things got touch of time on them. Even our memories… we like that.
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The product of music, analysis. Hierarchy there as I see it
Share / Comments: The product of music, analysis. Hierarchy there as I see it1) Melody and chords. The top and the highest thing to achieve is a melody, it is the best and most complex element, it directly influences our feelings.
2) Sound. The next and very close to the first is the sound, for example the type of a synthesizer or an instrument, and its characteristics, the interest of sound and its wave, flow.
3) Rhythm. Drums, crackles, percussion, things, their structure; rhythms is the heart; we are also naturally interested in the sound presentation of it.
4) Arrangement, production, composition timeline structure. Breaks and interruptions, timeline’s ideas, in short – how the flow of melodies, sounds and rhythms is organized together. Including mastering and processing, effects.
5) Design, idea, presentation of the music. Names, album art covers, design, how it is presented to public in general.
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Life is a fight
Share / Comments: Life is a fightLet us have no illusions, war is close to the natural state of man, in other words – we all have to deal with bad, life is a state of fight, either you solve yourself and your own complexity, or world around you, you can get many random scenarios during your path. War, fight, it’s dirty, but it is natural in terms of overall competition of beauty/freedom formation.
Weak and dirty attack prosperous, unfree attack free, resentment drives aggression… prosperous and reasonable rarely attack first, but it should be understood that a bad neighbors (extrapolate to the whole earth as well…) – sooner or later you will have to deal with them.
Personally, I am always ready for a battle, always ready for the worst, to attack or respond immediately, always ready to die, to fight the enemies – life is not a sugar sweet, it is a complicated thing. Life is good, but our society is complex, never balanced… So much dark in the world, you have to be ready. But in general I stick to the principle of not attacking first, enjoying life anyway. and I am not afraid of all that, life is good and death is good too.
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“Safety”
Share / Comments: “Safety”Today, “security” is a common popular form of deception.
Be accurate updating your software, especially if it’s not open sourced – they can make it worse – they just want to sell more; greed rules today, not quality.
Update only in a very rare case when you can see the list of changes. If it is open source and you clearly see that it fixes obvious vulnerability, close it, updated, of course. But how to believe closed source corporations who continuously been lying about security just to ship you other pack of “pro” to sell or to worsen your device to sell you new? You can’t see.
It would be better if they taught general computer education courses instead – open code, encryption, principles of simplicity in systems; in fact they don’t care about your security, honestly, but only money… what is fun they have enough pennies to live on, the main thing is the pursuit of a number, a badge, sometimes a luxury – the wealth of stupidity.
In general, you could perfectly well use a computer from 2008 or even older, all typical tasks seems to be quite enough. They tell “we have made new mega fast computer… same time doing idiotic over-complexity in software and artificial obsolescence to gain sales.
Same in governments, medicine, market. If it’s a corporation focused on generating money, high percentages in chances they don’t care about your safety, they want control and profit. Remember dictator’s wars usually start the guise of “safety of people” starting actually killing them later.
Or that virus hysteria a couple of years ago. I don’t deny that viruses happen, sometimes dangerous ones… I’m fine with vaccines and stuff; I speak about that info-noise, the shizo mass-psycho crying about safety… Until the absurd fragile edges. It sounds alarming and false by itself, reasonable statements can’t be formulated like that, such noise about security concerns was obviously pumped up for profits – journalists, pharmacists, politics… Foucault warned against this – the doctor, the next jailer. Got some problems, let us discuss them calmly, no threats to freedom.
Don’t trust that. Security idea is messed up. Be accurate… that’s how they sell it, for a reason!
Freedom first, then security.
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Who is coming
Share / Comments: Who is comingThe big problem of the modern world is random and ignorant people getting huge money/authority. Oversaturation of power often makes them even worse. Not good educated, not morally correct, not best talented, but medium ones… Masses of banal people just follow their craziness silently later because most folks are just too lazy to inspect that mess.
Factors of complexity, noise, bad organization…
However, for example in sports, or science, or real art (not pop), a random person barely be able to became successful without real talents.
But in politics and pop culture there are so much pure evil idiots out there. Society ought to do something about that.
Modern words have great science and underground art, but are stuck in horrible politics and mass culture crises. People are to find ways out of the random who take to the top only by their impudence or luck.
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” – Niels Bohr
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