Elon wants the Gaza Strip as his pet project. Been expecting this. Remember his 2023 visit to Netanyahu offering to “rebuid” Gaza. axios.com/2023/11/27/el…
We never slow down these days. We don’t stare at the ceiling after we wake up, letting our mind stretch, connect with our bodies, say hello to the tug of gravity from the center of the earth, the return of sunshine after our oneiric excursions. We immediately climb back into the log flume of “what’s going on.”
This diagnosis is nothing ne…
I’m feeling stuck between two attitudes. I love what calls “high weirdness”. And I’m also concerned about the highly weird being a substitute for depth, connection, and true openness. Someone like Joe Rogan might be helping people be more open by introducing them to thinkers like Graham Hancock. But he might also be discouraging critica…
No one wants to talk about how strange it is to be alive. It’s strange enough to watch the sun setting. Can we develop a greater capacity for appreciating pure mystery? I think it requires conditioning our nervous systems, for starters.
We live in the Dark Ages of Mental Health Care. Not because there isn’t incredible mental health care available, and amazing practitioners — it’s because there is so little literacy and diagnostic methodology to help people find the kind of therapy and kind of therapist they need to efficiently address their problems. And this means that…