This is a good time as any to write you that letter.
Randy/Robert/Garfield,
What if it isn't reality that's fake? Well, I take that back - reality is fake and has been becoming increasingly fake by the day. But reality is only as fake, I believe, insofar as one chooses to participate in it. We do live in a virtual worlds, but we must live in them through virtual versions of ourselves. We cannot live in Middle Earth unless we are LARPing. The ads merely tell us how to LARP; it shows us the world we can LARP in. The more immersive it is, the better. When we look away from our screens and realize we are not "living our best lives," we tune back into the algorithm that shows us those glimpses of "our best lives." It seems it is this mechanism of action through which, as you say, people become increasingly alienated from themselves, their bodies, and their world.
But advertising isn't the cause, but merely the accelerant. My philosophical thesis goes after a tired trope: blame Descartes. It's easy to see with Descartes in mind how one can see themselves alienated from their bodies and the world. But keep playing this out recursively over time and even "mind" can be split. Recall that humans are one of the very few animals that can see themselves in a mirror and recognize it as being "the self," while simultaneously being capable of recognizing the reflection isn't me - but it is. (Here is one example of an inescapable paradox btw.) And through reason and logic, we come to the conclusion that these two characters cannot be identical; therefore one of them can be a tool - machinery - to get what we *really* want.
Now comes another trope, "you need to love yourself before you love someone else." What does this mean? More specifically, what does "love" mean? With what I just wrote in consideration, I think it's something like communion. Or maybe I mean Communion, where body, blood, spirit, and even God become united through something like mere belief. This is how the paradox is resolved. In all the ways. This is how love saves the world - from "mind" outward, through simple assertion.
In any case, we are saying anything too different from each other. At least I don't think so. Keep writing. I'm invested.
Randy this was good, I sent it to a friend, I want more. But anyway I have two unrelated things to ask:
1. Do you *need* money? I mean, should I upgrade to "paid" or do you not give a shit?
2. Can you repost the Sky King piece? It was awesome.
Thank you, I definitely plan on more
1. I do, and I do give a shit
2. https://eggreport.substack.com/p/rehosting-envying-the-dead-skyking?utm_source=publication-search
This is a good time as any to write you that letter.
Randy/Robert/Garfield,
What if it isn't reality that's fake? Well, I take that back - reality is fake and has been becoming increasingly fake by the day. But reality is only as fake, I believe, insofar as one chooses to participate in it. We do live in a virtual worlds, but we must live in them through virtual versions of ourselves. We cannot live in Middle Earth unless we are LARPing. The ads merely tell us how to LARP; it shows us the world we can LARP in. The more immersive it is, the better. When we look away from our screens and realize we are not "living our best lives," we tune back into the algorithm that shows us those glimpses of "our best lives." It seems it is this mechanism of action through which, as you say, people become increasingly alienated from themselves, their bodies, and their world.
But advertising isn't the cause, but merely the accelerant. My philosophical thesis goes after a tired trope: blame Descartes. It's easy to see with Descartes in mind how one can see themselves alienated from their bodies and the world. But keep playing this out recursively over time and even "mind" can be split. Recall that humans are one of the very few animals that can see themselves in a mirror and recognize it as being "the self," while simultaneously being capable of recognizing the reflection isn't me - but it is. (Here is one example of an inescapable paradox btw.) And through reason and logic, we come to the conclusion that these two characters cannot be identical; therefore one of them can be a tool - machinery - to get what we *really* want.
Now comes another trope, "you need to love yourself before you love someone else." What does this mean? More specifically, what does "love" mean? With what I just wrote in consideration, I think it's something like communion. Or maybe I mean Communion, where body, blood, spirit, and even God become united through something like mere belief. This is how the paradox is resolved. In all the ways. This is how love saves the world - from "mind" outward, through simple assertion.
In any case, we are saying anything too different from each other. At least I don't think so. Keep writing. I'm invested.
david fucker wall-ass