@compartmentcar

magical realist

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Joined January 2021
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some collages i made in this economy
the whole world out there

ALT the whole world out there

multi-tasking portrait

ALT multi-tasking portrait

if all my favorite paintings are part of the same world

ALT if all my favorite paintings are part of the same world

surrealist pocky in your vending machine

ALT surrealist pocky in your vending machine

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fuck machiavelli. if you want to learn real grandmaster strategy, study charles maurice de talleyrand-périgord
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Settings where people across different social strata can freely brush shoulders is always subversive especially if it doubles as a site of public coronations & executions—reminding voyeurs wherever they perch that they could be next for either fate
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in pre-revolutionary France it was the infamous Pont Neuf, today its Twitter etc
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grateful that the internet & social media revolution increased the pool of mimetic influences I was exposed to as a teenager—otherwise all my desires & aspirations would've been limited to my immediate surroundings
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the "global village" can be terrifying as it exposes you to more rat races than you'd find in your immediate geographic surroundings, but in the process you might gradually realize that you can choose more carefully
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but i also feel that if I discovered it any earlier — before my family had the ability to inculcate core values and before I developed some of my own taste, exposure to such a profusion of mimetic influences would've been net negative
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Hopper is a master of insinuating a story without giving it away. This is what makes his work so magnetic.
Cowboy the Terrible@iJmillz6 Dec 2022
Something I love about Edward Hopper, a short thread 🧵
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Replying to @MysteryGrove
@MysteryGrove
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i can't journal bc i find my own mind to be a bad convo partner conversation history with others is where i stumble upon insights mid-conversation that i wasn't consciously aware of before & where i go to more accurately look back on past states of mind
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me when my best tool for thought is not a note-taking app or some bot but friends fr
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This is criminal
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Replying to @gonzalo__nunez
What do you think is the "counterculture" of today?
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a great education ought to give you a clearer model of reality & the will to reinterpret or reshape it. it sets the bounds of your agency and it shouldn't be limited to "do your taxes"
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sure dismiss it all as "the impractical" — half-heartedness is how we get a world devoid of imagination xitter.cf/moonbeamdreams_/status…
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connie 💝@compartmentcar6 Apr 2022
i wonder if a "great education" is just whatever experiences help you chisel a clearer model of the constraints of reality but make you strong / clever / tenacious enough to keep pushing against it or weaving around it
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nothing important has ever been accomplished without having to grapple with moral ambiguity head-on some stumble upon it and ignore it, try to unsee it willing to look at the paradox in the eye takes courages & humility
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