Wow! I never really thought of the world as decoupled and you painted that idea really clearly so I can see it now. Also love the that idea of wholistic activities 😀 Makes me wonder what I can be doing differently or putting together to make whole! Thanks for this insightful and inspiring essay 👏 🙌 🙏
I disagree it's fallen. For me, only the illusion that it's super great fell. In reality, it's almost monotonically increasing in goodness (say, information integration). In the Middle Ages, people's OS was The Bible. Now it's a wide variety of behaviours that increase one's happiness.
I had this line of thought in 2020-2023, that there's something fundamentally wrong, some sort of a math problem in the center of it. Then I realized what I needed was years of rest. I was too scared of what people say if I did that. I did nothing structured for months now. I did what I wanted. The world seems better now.
I don't like external likes after those events. It's just another form of control built into my brain. Still figuring out how to tame those parts in my brain so I can't be exploited like that. Almost figured a sort of a fear extinction protocol.
Wow! I never really thought of the world as decoupled and you painted that idea really clearly so I can see it now. Also love the that idea of wholistic activities 😀 Makes me wonder what I can be doing differently or putting together to make whole! Thanks for this insightful and inspiring essay 👏 🙌 🙏
Max Neef calls these "Synergistic Satisfiers", for reference
I disagree it's fallen. For me, only the illusion that it's super great fell. In reality, it's almost monotonically increasing in goodness (say, information integration). In the Middle Ages, people's OS was The Bible. Now it's a wide variety of behaviours that increase one's happiness.
I had this line of thought in 2020-2023, that there's something fundamentally wrong, some sort of a math problem in the center of it. Then I realized what I needed was years of rest. I was too scared of what people say if I did that. I did nothing structured for months now. I did what I wanted. The world seems better now.
I don't like external likes after those events. It's just another form of control built into my brain. Still figuring out how to tame those parts in my brain so I can't be exploited like that. Almost figured a sort of a fear extinction protocol.