5) It's good to know though that you are out there working hard to make a better world. 💟

4) Having to reset the map, as you say, is not the easiest thing to do. I second that in more ways that you might know. You're brilliant though. So, I have no doubt that you, as warranted and checked by the terrain, will come to adapt.

3) ... loosely and not become overly enamored with it in a way that leads to clinging—where we try to make the terrain fit the map. That’s where a lot of suffering is generated…

2) ... cannot yet become aware of. Even when we do become aware that something has changed, the reading always proves indirect and imperfect. That’s a foundational, non-negotiable epistemological reality, you could say. It’s baked into experience. The lesson, I suppose, is to always hold the map...

1) Makes perfect sense. The territory (or terrain) is always changing in noumenal ways that are not immediately triangulable just by its appearances—i.e., the only dimension we have direct access to (the phenomenological). Effective maps are constructed, only for the terrain to shift in ways we...

So a legislative bill is 100% invested in just some sheets of paper? No sheets, no bill? Seems like a really shitty design.

(2 of 2) ... a lot of existential dissatisfaction and burnout. I realized expectations were just constructs and not reality itself. That tamped down my ego and I stopped more or less taking "prediction errors" personally. Hope that helps...

(1 of 2) Not currently, but I used to... a lot! Realized that how I was mapping the territory (a top down construct) and the territory I was walking (a bottom up experience - reality basically) were not one and the same. I'd get upset the territory wasn't fitting the map but that just lead to....

Great album. I wore that thing out. 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' just dominated the radio airwaves that summer (1985).

The explanatory power of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) hasn't yet penetrated political speech much.

Think the peons of idiocracy have something going for them that the rest of us don't. It's this preternatural level of certainty they have about the righteousness of their business. It imparts this forceful conviction free from any circumscribable doubt.

If your statement isn't rhetorical, all of THIS looks like an acceleration towards Idiocracy, one loaded with an already existing inertia...

Think it's 19 and likely just a knee jerk 'MAGA virtue signaling' flail.

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