1768 || there is a third option

1768 || there is a third option

It's not healthy (or "sane") to follow the social norms of an unhealthy (or "insane") society.


There is a third (secret) space available for us to boycott, sabotage, and refuse to align with what is wrong with the current "norms" but we have to be willing to look at the world differently to see it. We don't have to decide between escape and compliance. There is a middle ground that can push back against the worst aspects of our culture, and inspire others to seek out their own freewill and autonomy to do the same.



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Episoder(1868)

1841 || at the edge of reason

1841 || at the edge of reason

"Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions—in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our posse...

1 Sep 9min

1840 || navigating agency + uncertainty

1840 || navigating agency + uncertainty

A human being is a creature that doesn’t author the architecture in which it chooses from, so it can only act within the possibilities that it is capable of perceiving and expand those possibilities t...

31 Aug 9min

1839 || be realistic, expect miracles

1839 || be realistic, expect miracles

be realistic, expect miracles.The universe is chaotic and the more we fight that the harder it is to deal with it. Resistance of that truth is the problem, not the truth itself. When we finally learn ...

30 Aug 10min

1838 || get out of your head + into your body

1838 || get out of your head + into your body

Uncertainty feels unbearable and can send us spiraling, keeping us trapped in our heads. It's important to get out of your head and into your body when this happens. THE SOURCES: https://gsas.harvard....

29 Aug 10min

1837 || dealing with uncertainty

1837 || dealing with uncertainty

Emilia Fart has a poem she published on her TikTok in which she said, “When desolate, empty, and inspiration barren, remember the apricot you’ll eat next august, juice running down your chin. Remember...

28 Aug 9min

1836 || letting karma happen vs. taking compassionate action

1836 || letting karma happen vs. taking compassionate action

We can't ask karma to do compassion's job. Acceptance and action are meant to be utilized together. Learn to separate what must be accepted from what must be changed. Don't make victory a measure of ...

27 Aug 12min

1835 || life is unfair so i choose not to be

1835 || life is unfair so i choose not to be

Nature is indifferent to my interpretations of morality and justice. We humans tend to moralize everything, but not everything has a moral. Every ending doesn’t have to feel like a punishment for bad ...

26 Aug 10min

1834 || we don't know what we don't know

1834 || we don't know what we don't know

You don't know what you don't know, but the curse is that you think you do. If we make a good choice that works out badly, we are often very harsh on ourselves for making that decision in the first pl...

25 Aug 11min

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