widespread loneliness is a national security issue
it can't be solved by FBI/CIA type agents though, it can only be solved by bros, by friends, by kind strangers, by community
a thing I've been ruminating on a lil as a treat:
on one hand it can be helpful to experiment with a radically localized frame of reference for thinking about one's life. put your own oxygen mask on first. don't worry about Big Problems that you cannot influence. focus on family
on one hand it can be helpful to experiment with a radically localized frame of reference for thinking about one's life. put your own oxygen mask on first. don't worry about Big Problems that you cannot influence. focus on family
but on the other, I don't think it's super healthy to have a "I protect me and my family and fuck everyone else in this hostile universe who's out to get us" mindset. but this is SO context dependent. you might live somewhere that really is uncommonly hostile, zero-sum, etc
growing up it seemed obvious that there are lovely people in the 🌍 out there that I do not know. that's where 📚🎨🎭🎶 comes from. that gives me a *reason* to give a shit about myself, so that I can get my shit together well enough to go meet them
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1084020608197771264
I think where I'm ending up with this is: overly elegant, simplistic models of being might be seductive, but they're fragile. it's the seeing-like-a-state problem applied for your own psychology.
of course @vgr already wrote about this 10 years ago ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-b…
of course @vgr already wrote about this 10 years ago ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-b…
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