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Ghostly Vulture
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Interested in psychology, philosophy, cosmology, metaphysics. "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." — Werner Heisenberg

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By Maxim Zhestkov: Usually things can be made slightly better, a few percent at a time. But some challenges require something a hundred times better. In those cases polishing is not enough. You have to hack the system, rethink its foundation and search for a completely new logic. Linear reasoning leads to small steps while true breakthroughs happen when you change the frame. TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem solving, begins with imagining the perfect system and then works backward to make it real. Seeing problems from new angles opens paths that did not exist before. Only hacks, those radical shifts in logic, can solve truly serious problems. But to do that you first need to see them differently, through new framings and unexpected perspectives. This is what TRIZ makes possible: it defines the ideal version of a system and then challenges you to make it real.
October 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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But the female body is not the problem here. It is the guilt and anguish derived from this symbolic attack against the mother that entraps the daughter's development. Hoping to master her rage, anxiety, and sense of loss at separating from the mother by directing these feelings toward her own female flesh, the woman coming of age today involves herself in an intensifted act of self-destruction at the very moment she is seeking to evolve a new sense of self. This is the tragic paradox the new woman must resolve.
May 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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"…within largest cultural context which allows us to rage because of how terribly we've been mothered but including in this rage our mothers as daughters with their own despair. Then we shall liberate an anger that indicts not the mothers but a social system that has never ceased to suppress women."
Thus, a woman of any age becomes a modern mother, a woman in serious if hidden crisis, when she cannot efface and sacrifice and live through her children. But the same woman, at any age, becomes a daughter with an eating disorder the moment she steps out to seek her own development and must pause to brood upon her mother's life. An eating disorder can be resolved only within this largest cultural context, which allows us to rage because of how terribly we have been mothered but including now in this rage our mothers as daughters with a right to their own despair. Then we shall have liberated an anger that indicts not the mothers but a social system that has never ceased to suppress women. And we shall be able finally to set free from the tangled knot of self-destruction and obsession the radical and healing knowledge that an eating disorder is a profoundly political act. I am describing generations of women who suffer guilt: women who cannot mother their daughters because their legitimate dreams and ambitions have not been recognized; mothers who know they have failed and cannot forgive themselves for their failure; daughters who blame themselves for needing more than the mother was able to provide, who saw and experienced the full extent of the older woman's crisis, who cannot let themselves feel rage at their mother because they know how much she needs them to forgive her.
May 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Nagende Zweifel, mit der stetigen Erwartung auf Ablehnung zu treffen ist allgegenwärtig; Scham, ihre fragmentierte Psyche zu offenbaren, die ihnen im Vergleich zu anderen so unvollständig erscheint, ein Kernelement. Das verkümmerte Selbst, ewig hungernd nach mehr. Ein endloser Abgrund, gefüllt mit allem außer Substanz — die Essenz des Seins, ertränkt am Boden.
May 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Beckett in his Proust essay:

“Either we speak and act for ourselves—in which case speech and action are distorted and emptied of their meaning by an intelligence that is not ours, or else we speak and act for others—in which case we speak and act a lie.”
March 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM