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Dec 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
"It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby." – Elliott Erwitt ImageImageImageImage
"The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe, I try to entertain, but above all, I want pictures that are emotional." – Erwitt ImageImageImageImage
"I don't believe that photography can change the world, but it can show the world changing." – Erwitt ImageImage
Thanks to @misen__ for finding this archive of Erwitt's photos: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/erwittdc/ ImageImage

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Mar 19
THIS SCENARIO IS LITERALLY THE MOST COMMON DM I GET

I would just say BEHEAD HIM at this point but the sad fact is that he does not even realize what's going on

It is quite possible to solve in individual cases. If you can solve broadly, you can unlock great human happiness
there is a great affliction of people not realizing that life has a point, a plot, and they play a part in it. That it is more than endlessly renewing your streaming subscription services and getting better at rock climbing
observationally this is not at all obvious to many people. Even otherwise smart people. Especially a certain kind of smart people whose success in life has come mostly from obeying others. They sideline the parts of their life that are the open ocean, as if someone is supposed...
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Mar 4
It's a movie about the forces of evil, boredom, and aimlessness and what they do to an otherwise promising person. It's like a vampire movie without vampires. Also a very tight script, no line of dialogue is wasted.

And it has an accurate depiction...
of what it feels like for a bright person when everyone older than you in your life is checked out, unaware, and kind-of an imbecile, especially wrt the future.

No one actually helps Benjamin. They lob "advice" at him, berate him, seduce him. But they don't think about him.
No one cares that he begins the movie with a deep internal struggle, that he's trying to get away to have his hero's journey in solitude, since he's realized no one is paying attention. But people, belligerently, continue to not pay attention.
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Feb 28
yeah after food health shelter family, what is there? I mean beside RESHAPING OF THE WORLD, and ART TO VENERATE THE DIVINE and sure I guess being the HANDMAID OF INVENTION and little other trifles in pursuit of glory and theory and beauty and all that. yeah diminishing returns
guys used to get up in the morning and say to each other Lets build a cathedral so beautiful and so grand that all who come after us will think us Mad

now people talk about "diminishing returns"
I'm not saying these shouldn't be prioritized, I'm saying there is always more worth doing. If you have resources, you should think of how to use them. I think you would have to be afflicted with a terrible kind of malaise to think nothing can be done.

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Jan 30
A lot of replies say versions of "you need to be telling not asking" or "you need to disallow video games"

I think both these miss the mark widely. The fundamental issue is that we have created a world for kids that is so circumscribed that they feel they can't do much in it.
There are two failures here:

One is that children are not allowed to do very many things at all, fewer than ever in some cases.

And the other is a failure of imagination on the parents part, of showing what they *can* do.
There's "doing stuff" like hiking or biking, but there's also fundamentally changing your world, your circumstances, the things around you. These latter things are separate and what parents/school fail at. Kids are basically told "wait" on that until they're in their 20's.
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Jan 19
With knitting, Simi picked it up because having 2 babies gives you many small periods of time where you can semi-consciously work (but no more) and knitting fits perfectly into these.

She knits while reading to Lu, in the car, while baby asleep in lap, etc
now hats for the whole family, sweaters and cardigans for both babies, mittens for them too were all made during these periods. It's a great way to make things where before you didn't think you had the time.
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It also has the added benefit of habituating the babies philosophically into making things. I want them to see us make things, and to make things themselves, from an early age.

Witnessing this is important especially in an age where "work" is something most people do elsewhere
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Nov 16, 2023
This is one of the most terminal business behaviors that I've seen in my life, and it happens even in families. Incredibly stifling. I think it may be part of why the fertility rate is so low.
There are 50 year olds living under thumb of their 75 yo father who is unable to relinquish serious control of anything.

Others much younger opt out of the family biz instead. Can't blame them, they see that it means less agency that climbing a random corp ladder.
I suspect a lot of institutional knowledge and institutions themselves are destroyed not because of outside factors, but a self-destruct.

Big part of what makes an institution an institution (vs anything lesser) is capability of continuity, but some ppl just don't see it.
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