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When you cut your nails, are the nail clippings your nail clippings? Is that you on the floor? What if you remove your arm, is that your arm on the floor? What contains of the You?
Dysmorphic hallucinations were every person walking past looks like an attractive woman.
Caravaggio getting real sea snakes from a fisherman for a model for the head of Medusa.
Don’t get too comfortable in your own nest. Cultivating my orchard for it to bear fruit.
Notes 2
What the individual wants in modernity is so meaningless. No one wants to work together to create something big and meaningful.
Obsessive neurosis in things that don’t matter. The NASA engineer obsessed with Spyro 3 speedruns. Pausing each frame in the video he took of his run to analyse it, because he can’t shake the feeling of the strange nostalgic dopamine that has made a serration in his habit centre because he has been stripped of his identity.
Leveling up in a video game, absolutely artificial development. Most people are a small step up from this, thinking they are building something. Very few people are actually building something real. You need to jump through the hoop to get to the place where you can build for real. This is where real growth can take place.
Notes 1
Current “ground” objectives:
Keep on creating artwork (Image category).
More videos and GIFs in the Dedware style.
Conceptualize and start piecing together the next game.
Work on GHEL (lore).
Produce more Dedware clothing.
Dedware assorted works (book).
Current “running” objectives (Used to strengthen/improve your physicality/mentality):
Continued exercise.
Lessen minutia.
Being “in the world” more.
Secondary objectives (Of less import, but more time consuming to achieve):
Get a girlfriend (Positive emotion).
Lessen chain sickness/More self-efficiency (Positive emotion, freedom).