Since he began working for us, Sisyphus has demonstrated dedication and determination, resulting in constant improvement in his job performance. Though he excels at tasks performed alone, he brings professionalism, enthusiasm and a team-first attitude to work every day. All in all a model employee.

i’m bene gesserit pilled, they’re getting my ass, it’s very over, please rule the universe i don’t even want it

“All symbolic domination presupposes, on the part of those who submit to it, a form of complicity which is neither passive submission to external constraint nor a free adherence to values.”

– Pierre Bourdieu, ‘Language & Symbolic Power’

I’ve been in psychoanalytic training for four years now, cumulatively assigned probably 3K pages of Freud. And more weeks than not I have the unsettling realization, as if for the first time, his work is so immensely stranger than I had realized.

This reminds of a famous line from Adorno's "Minima Moralia:"

"Doomscrolling is hopescrolling - the hope for doom."

Sisterhood of Dune is very good, started reading it in case Dune Prophecy pulls a multi-season split in the narrative

But what would Freud say about all of this?

Posting my paper ideas here that would otherwise die unwritten

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between