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~inquiry

I'm liking "Authentic Indifference". Sounds in the direction of raw awareness.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

Yea, I saw that Gita quote from textmonger - he was quoted with the "destroyer of worlds" thing that Oppenheimer recalled too, yea?

By the way, "intake toxicity" - I likely had a bout of that, myself some time back, as "all blogs blog the same" (or so I thought), and the subject matter delineates little from the Big Picture of "social media sucks, heres why to blog, how to blog a lot, how to make money blogging, how to grow an audience with a blog", et al. When all I was doing in the space was trying to re-invent the (personal/self) standard of what I can do with wordsmith'ing. I was literally trying to surprise myself per post, and become better at writing as I went along.

Different than the AP Guidebook referencers and SEO masters who "just want rank". AI perpetuates content conformity, usually by Not People.

Back to what I was saying, though I suffered from intake toxicity, I suffered more from writer's woes - essentially, I was torturing myself by doing all that for so long.

Nevertheless, the online comrades I've met, and keep, and people's opinion of the WWW, in general (observations that I've read of others, people's candid candor online, a "fuck it all, this is MY online hub" attitude) shows me that it all was worth it (writing/being online, that is).

Though I digress, because it ("it" being the "days of blogging") are a time-and-place thing for me now. Like Minor Threat (Washington DC punk band from the early-1980s) had a time and place in history, or the campground that I grew up in love with, only for it to be leveled and turned into a GM lot - I have (or still am) compartmentalizing my time spent in the past several years to just "that was there, this is now", and I'm happier now, so on I go! :)

Stay well, Inquiry