It's troubling how often, when making irl conversation w/ a random man over the age of 50, their go-to topic of choice is "things have gotten worse than ever, and they're gonna keep getting worse - wouldn't you agree?"
It can be an interesting exercise to continue the conversation while casually refusing to affirm their frame, while also not adopting the frame of The Enemy (as they might be wont to project on you)
Being too aware of The Past & The Future often seems like a detriment to a person's mental & emotional health
People concerned about climate change talk about unseasonably warm days in the fall / winter like how fat ppl talk about hors d'oeuvres, "Oh I really shouldn't, we made a resolution...but they're so good...maybe just one more..."
People can become addicted to self-discipline in a way that isn't nearly as useful as it might first appear. It's the other end of the spectrum to ppl who shotgun tons of psychedelics in hopes of developing mental powers, and just go crazy instead. You turn into a stone
Much in the way that MBTI is said to be "horoscopes for people too self-conscious to indulge in astrology", radical AI Utopianism reads like ppl doing a Sci Fi Apologetics for New Thought: the mind has the power to reshape reality, but only if it's a special Computer Mind
All social media is media in the mode of the network consciousness. Media for which the true referent is not the object or idea being depicted, but a self-reflection of every other node in dra network itself. The particular content of each node is simply an ancestral inheritance
a person flipping between being extremely optimistic & extremely pessimistic about the future on like a weekly basis quickly starts to look very silly to me in a way that'd be hard to undo