“Our minds are better employed bearing the misfortunes that do happen to us than anticipating those that could happen.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

#Naturesky

“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”

— Michel de Montaigne, Essais

The choir of nature.

As the river flows and the birds rejoice in the trees above. The breeze blows by with its own Aria and my soul rests in its thoughtful tune. Solitude. 😊

#nature #trees #river #life #calm #peace #walk #birds #explore #mindfulness #photography

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a capitalists' coup right now are rebelling against the people & the "free market" for rejecting them & the tech they need us to become dependent on. They're taking over the government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter

“Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

THREAD

Weird and wrong beliefs that humanity held onto for way longer than we should have.

These days we enlightened denizens look back on those simpletons and giggling fools of old and tut-tut at their hilarious beliefs.

*Record Scratch*

Here's some stuff we got wrong until recently.

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