Struggling?

Yeah, validation is part of the craft.

“It” doesn’t know that there are deeper etc. it’s a craft. It has no brain.

It is one craft. There are others (for example, whittling). Let’s not aggrandize it.

(EDIT. unified nomenclature)

Same thing in buddhism. If I quote a thing that makes no sense to me or anybody, it’s legit because a famous teacher said it. But if I just freestyle my own observation, that’s a no no.

99% of culture is tradition. Which is just an echo, banging out of the past. It ain’t aware or intelligent. Brains of a canopener.

That’s speaking from a certain perspective on that stuff.

There’s a whole world of strangeness that popular culture, science etc does not satisfyingly address. So they look elsewhere.

Sometimes you see things.

Science is just a bunch of models crafted by a society.

And there are other ways to do things.

How false are we talking? A couple seconds? Minutes?

So in summation, “nuh uh”.

Well you wouldn’t know what’s lost until you see it yrself.

From what I’ve seen, it’s vast. What remains is a single sunflower seed left from the whole flower.

Well that certainly does simplify it.

Call it a perceptual tunnelvision that becomes a habit.

Ya, a tool with a sneaky downside.

Shikantaza meditation (it’s what the zen buddhists do) has the opposite effect.

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Obsession is just the overt form of the disease.

Concentrate regularly on a thing, physical, mental or emotional, and it will produce the disease as well.

And that second form is hidden because the sufferer is not visibly raving. And they are embedded in a society filled with people that look much the same.

But don’t take my word for it. Study attention and its forms (direction, concentration, distraction…). Experiment with it. See for yourself.

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I am describing the concentration of attention. Which includes a great ignoring. This is simple and obvious.

I am adding to that, habit. Unconscious action that is. Doing a thing while not aware that you’re doing it.

Which, when we put them together, gives us a kind of blindness.

If that blindness is unacknowledged then yes, that’s a kind if insanity. And it would follow that the more you concentrate the more insane you are.

If everybody does it (habitually concentrates) then yes, everybody is insane.

Is it necessary and unavoidable? I doubt it.

Am I being unclear here or just offensive?

Yeah that’s why I put it in quotes, because it’s a dumb term for what we’re looking for here.

Try just answering those 2 questions.

Or not, this is exhausting.

There’s a universe where we talk about it. Try that first.

You could try asking.

But we’re always trying to increase revenue and decrease cost. That’s biological. It’s a constant.

So enshittification and change for the worse look alike. So maybe conflate them

So the only thing free from this constant worsening is that which we give special attention to improving. (Ex : technology)

(It’s a strong argument for personal discipline. Chaos is the norm. Insanity is the norm. Rot is the norm. Etc)

Sounds like Cory is pointing fingers. Has any society ever curtailed our hunger for more? Harnessed that of the underclass. Gave free rein to that of the overclass. Yes. But never inhibited.