mandlebro @mandlebro@social.cleverlibre.org

This really feels like it might be the core of a lot of post-industrial mental illness.

"*The craving for suffering* - When I think of the craving to do something, which continually tickles and spurs those millions of young Europeans who cannot endure their boredom and themselves, then I realize that they must have a craving to suffer and to find in their suffering a probable reason for actions for deeds. Neediness is needed! Hence the politicians' clamor, hence the many false, fictitious, exaggerated 'conditions of distress' of all sorts of classes and the blind readiness to believe in them. These young people demand that--not happiness but unhappiness should approach *from the outside* and become visible; and their imagination is busy in advance to turn it into a monster so that afterward they can fight a monster. If these people who crave distress felt the strength inside themselves to benefit themselves and to do something for themselves internally, then they would also know how to create for themselves, internally, their very own authentic distresses. Then their inventions might be more refined and their satisfactions might sound like good music, while at present they fill the world with their clamor about distresses and all too often introduce into it the *filling of distress.* They do not know what to do with themselves--and therefore paint the distress of others on the wall; they always need others! And continually other others! --Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my *happiness* on the wall." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*

Daylight savings time was first implemented in Canada. Finally, an objective reason to hate them.

I had a dream where I filled my living room with water and started running a nuclear reactor in it, but the water kept causing my computer to short so I shut it off, which caused the reactor to go critical and irradiate me and my roommate.

@augustus @hannibal_ad_portas If scarcity increases due to the lack of foreign trade, that decreases actual buying power locally.

@leviathan
> Nietzsche
> Utopian

I saw an owl on my morning run today. I bet you're jealous.

@nik gangster computer god

@cowanon it me

"Buddhist meditation has two aspects - shamatha and vipashyana. We tend to stress the importance of vipashyana ('looking deeply') because it can bring us insight and liberate us from suffering and afflictions. But the practice of shamatha ('stopping') is fundamental."

This made me think of the well tempered clavier. I had always wondered at the structural reason for the preludes, given that they are followed only by a single fugue. It never felt like enough of a contrast for it to be a logic vs passion sort of thing, like in the chromatic fantasy and fugue. So maybe it's more to allow the listener to "stop" and settle into the tonality before diving into in depth of the fugue.