Be ready to lose everything. Nothing physical truly belongs to us; it’s all just temporary rent. Only your mind and your time are yours
philosophical insights & critical reflectionS
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Impermanence
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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.
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“AI”
Share / Comments: “AI”Stupid word “AI” is everywhere today, it’s lame dumb, like all “trendy” stuff. Just a bad taste… Everyone will get sick of that buzz soon enough.
We will get a good technology after some years, no doubts. I’m nice about that, just tired of the nonsense masses’ fears and marketing hysteria.
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Just music… not jazz, not lounge, but something old and nice
Share / Comments: Just music… not jazz, not lounge, but something old and niceAn interesting piece of vintage I stumbled upon recently. Not quite easy mark it with any well known genres. I’d call it something like vintage lounge, but rhythmic parts ain’t so visible there to be considered so. 1946 / USA
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Mist
Share / Comments: MistWhat’s ahead? The unknown. Don’t try to predict, you can’t. Just do what you have to do, be truthful, honest, and let it be. In the end, you’ll die anyway, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, take it easy.
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Lo-Fi, representation, post-perception
Share / Comments: Lo-Fi, representation, post-perceptionContemporary culture is over-saturated with crystallized images: they talk and sell the idea of realism as a supposedly surefire sales stimulant.
Lo-fi, on the other side, lets the imagination play out better. More interesting it is, to a certain extent. In general, art, imagination, fuel of passion, even sex drive, is delicious and interesting to the consciousness when it has something behind, that when it gets there, it is played out there, mutates, hooks local neural networks, not just copy-pasting like some contemporary ultra-realism, consumerism based stuff.
Mystery, unobtrusiveness, subtlety, this is what we love. Lo-fi and abstract is closer to the real art and play than realism, in this context.
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Over-consumerism, poverty
Share / Comments: Over-consumerism, povertyIn well developed countries, poverty is not what one does not have, but what he lacks – his needs, his wishes, quite often- delusional passions.
Value’s point of view.
In dark times of modern’s world concentrated over-consumerism ideals, peoples rarely feels satisfied with the basics everyone actually needs, but rather continuously seeks more and more, that’s what I call post modern’s poverty – intellectual poverty.
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Denial
Share / Comments: DenialAn official, a policeman, a deputy, a president… Just a temporary function we delegated you to serve us, the society.
I know you can be a good fellow, but never try to enslave, I’m always ready to protect the freedom. You work for me, I work for you, only real cooperation matters. Keep it simple, mind the gap.
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Intellect, ethics, talented but wrong directed people
Share / Comments: Intellect, ethics, talented but wrong directed peopleVarious parts of the human brain are not necessarily interconnected.
But it’s true that we can only call a truly good man a morally and correctly intelligent man, that is, a noble man. That’s primary. A well-trained brain in terms of aesthetics, technology, is nothing without proper ethics, moral course and nobility, it is like a powerful car with a bad driver. What I mean by correct moral course… let’s take the basics, the simplest and most understandable – do not harm others, do not lie, do not be greedy, be ready to die and go away any day.
Nobility as “a noble character” or “displays nobility of spirit” not as someone’s family lineage or aristocratic background.
There are deep minds with excellent skills or unique talents – but moral freaks and therefore doomed, I do not respect such people, even if they have created a lot of delicious. For me, the main thing is that a person should be honest, pointed for the truth… it’s good if he’s talented or gifted, but in general it’s no problem if he’s just an average.
“Clever, noble, but not talented; talented, noble, but not clever; or, lastly, talented, clever, but not noble” – a quote from somewhere.
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Just for fun. Life Game
Share / Comments: Just for fun. Life GameNever busting my ass for any work include this blog or my music or anything else in that matter. I just do it because I like it because I have time because it’s interesting for me. I don’t care what other people can think about that. It’s like a video game or something, just doing what I like. If it will became any really impossibly hard some day, I’ll just turn off the console, I’m free to do that too, experience is everything.
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Artificial values
Share / Comments: Artificial valuesNever “marry” ideas, even if you’ve invested a lot in them, we humans are very complex creatures and it’s normal to make mistakes sometimes.
It’s better and easier to be open and say “I was wrong, OK, let’s move on, at least I learned something new” than to constantly destroy the path by those wrongly coordinated movements even if “you put so much efforts there” so that they became an artificial value to you.
Also, don’t care what others think about your way – first of all, they care about their own personalities most of the time, secondly, why the heck should you mind what those heads think at all when you have your own detailed view to decide on; so, just be careful buying the double represented views of others. It’s a precarious thing to correlate your values and ideas with others.
Freedom is the fuel of good value creation, so – be there. Remember to guard against the delusional, enslaving thinking of the masses, it’s so often corrupted. Listening only to selected people can help – those who have proven by real results that they have good brains and honest morals (for example, those who’ve never been caught telling nontruth deliberately), but even they can be wrong…
So, the critical thinking, open mindedness, openness to death, and not being afraid of someone saying you are wrong are the keys here.
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” – Niels Bohr
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