himselfe
@artificed.theater
All the things lost, all the things gained. The transitions and phases, the peaks and troughs, the tumultuous waves. Every passing hope memories lament. Every distant shore potential. This sea is mine and shall be tamed.
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himselfe
@artificed.theater
· Feb 12
I am human, with all the faults and graces that come with my genetic makeup. I have my values and principles, and I have my prejudices and impulses. Which I follow depends on my fortitude in the moment, and the burdens and gains that have shaped me so far.
Any system that relies on the idea of humans being inherently trustworthy is at best naive and doomed to fail, and at worst deliberately insufficient and intended to fail.
October 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Any system that relies on the idea of humans being inherently trustworthy is at best naive and doomed to fail, and at worst deliberately insufficient and intended to fail.
You don't need much to fool a willing fool, but it's all you need to cause pernicious societal harm through perceptual fraud.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You don't need much to fool a willing fool, but it's all you need to cause pernicious societal harm through perceptual fraud.
It's really tragic that the world is in the state it is for little more than pride and ignorance.
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It's really tragic that the world is in the state it is for little more than pride and ignorance.
Prosperity crushed by its own permitance, civilisation falters and malice infests, when structures embrace arms agape, pernicious interests and creeping rots. With sown intent facades crumble, humanity lorn amidst the mobs. To repeat again, come history forgot.
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Prosperity crushed by its own permitance, civilisation falters and malice infests, when structures embrace arms agape, pernicious interests and creeping rots. With sown intent facades crumble, humanity lorn amidst the mobs. To repeat again, come history forgot.
The media's broad failure to challenge or even address the rank hypocrisy and cronyistic deification shown by Republicans right now is dire, and can only fuel further political entrenchment.
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The media's broad failure to challenge or even address the rank hypocrisy and cronyistic deification shown by Republicans right now is dire, and can only fuel further political entrenchment.
There's very little actual social justice that happens in the post-modern West. Notions like 'empowerment' and 'oppression' are just banners people wave to enable and normalize their own perverse self-indulgent preferences, slogans companies use to sell products, and politicians use to win votes.
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There's very little actual social justice that happens in the post-modern West. Notions like 'empowerment' and 'oppression' are just banners people wave to enable and normalize their own perverse self-indulgent preferences, slogans companies use to sell products, and politicians use to win votes.
Most interactions on the societal scale boil down to a contest of who can reap the rewards, and who else can be made to pay the price.
August 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Most interactions on the societal scale boil down to a contest of who can reap the rewards, and who else can be made to pay the price.
Crooks openly lying to sell parlour tricks to mugs.
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Crooks openly lying to sell parlour tricks to mugs.
It isn't technology that befalls us, it is those who make it to take our control of choice away.
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It isn't technology that befalls us, it is those who make it to take our control of choice away.
If you abandon the notion of objective reality, then 'truth' becomes what whoever controls the narrative wants it to be.
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If you abandon the notion of objective reality, then 'truth' becomes what whoever controls the narrative wants it to be.
No fulcrum point will ever be perpetual, so find the paths that sway toward balance.
June 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
No fulcrum point will ever be perpetual, so find the paths that sway toward balance.
Sometimes I am hope's fool, often I am hope's dependent, rarely am I hope's beneficiary, but always hope's advocate I shall be.
May 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sometimes I am hope's fool, often I am hope's dependent, rarely am I hope's beneficiary, but always hope's advocate I shall be.
Society forgets, and history repeats always. As a species, we haven't changed much psychologically since the dawn of civilisation. The actors and theatres have changed, but the plays are pretty much the same.
May 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Society forgets, and history repeats always. As a species, we haven't changed much psychologically since the dawn of civilisation. The actors and theatres have changed, but the plays are pretty much the same.
This is Europe's moment. Take it well!
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is Europe's moment. Take it well!
I am human, with all the faults and graces that come with my genetic makeup. I have my values and principles, and I have my prejudices and impulses. Which I follow depends on my fortitude in the moment, and the burdens and gains that have shaped me so far.
February 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I am human, with all the faults and graces that come with my genetic makeup. I have my values and principles, and I have my prejudices and impulses. Which I follow depends on my fortitude in the moment, and the burdens and gains that have shaped me so far.
People like to believe that they are better, but very few put any real effort into actually being, or even understanding what it is to be better. Virtue for many is simply a garb.
January 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
People like to believe that they are better, but very few put any real effort into actually being, or even understanding what it is to be better. Virtue for many is simply a garb.
Pretty much anything can become an ideology or religion if there is a means to use it for social manipulation.
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Pretty much anything can become an ideology or religion if there is a means to use it for social manipulation.
Are we truly alive, or are we just mobile homes for mitochondria?
January 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Are we truly alive, or are we just mobile homes for mitochondria?
I hope the irony is not lost on people that, from Monday, X/Twitter will be state-affiliated media.
January 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I hope the irony is not lost on people that, from Monday, X/Twitter will be state-affiliated media.
When reason fails, just do a cartwheel. 🤸
January 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
When reason fails, just do a cartwheel. 🤸