Likely true.................................

 

      more fun here

Martin Gurri...............................

 

...............................is always worth reading:

Something new was afoot. In 2016, Trump won an electoral contest. In 2024, he stood at the vanguard of a profound cultural shift that touched on everyday morals and manners, the relations between the sexes, a freer but more fragmented internet—with artificial intelligence hovering in the near foreground—and the first concerted effort in 50 years to reduce the federal government to the dimensions suggested by the Constitution. Trump had become the definitive avatar of the revolt of the American public, and he had been granted much power by the election. The immediate question was whether such a volatile personality, assisted by a gang of eccentrics, could succeed enough to satisfy the public’s hunger for change.

The answer will not be long in coming.

It was a very good day................................

 

when years ago I discovered the music of Windham Hill.

In the background...............................

       

         Roy Orbison...................I Drove All Night

 

Remembering................................

 

...............................the not-so-secret secrets.

Breathe.......................

 

             thanks Chris

meaning.......................

 We don't need to measure our notions of happiness or progress against imagined universal constants for those concepts.  They don't exist.  Even the typical notions of success change with time, context, and fashion.  We do not need to prove that our ideas of identity or purpose are watertight in some objective, evidence-based sense.  That isn't how meaning works.  Meaning is a story, and act of creation and interpretations, and for human beings meaning is at least as important as fact.

-Jarod K. Anderson, Something In The Woods Loves You

attending..................

 

There are a near-infinite number of ways to categorize—hence, to perceive—a finite number of objects.  We do not and cannot attend with equal devotion to everything occurring always and everywhere around us.  Instead, with a glance, we prioritize the facts.  In doing so, we attend to very little and ignore much.  We do so in keeping with our aim.  We do so to gain what we need and want . . .

-Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine

simplifying.....................

 

     We weigh the facts we encounter in accordance with our values.  We elevate some pathways forward, things in the world, and people to a higher place than others, consigning everything deemed lesser to the netherworld of impediment, obstacle, enemy, or foe, or the invisible domain of irrelevance.  Thus we order, simplify, and reduce the world, prior to even encountering it. 

-Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle With God:  Perceptions of the Divine

insufficiently heralded......................

We perceive, therefore, in accordance with our aim.  This is a remarkable and insufficiently heralded realization, implying as it does nothing less than both our misery and our joy depend on our values.

-Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine