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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • One of my favorite quotes about this subject:

    “Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.”

    -Julian Jaynes

    The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
















  • Thanks so much my friend! I don’t know why but I just really needed to get that out in writing for some reason, ya know? Exactly it’s gotten so extreme that in my experience even the people who vote against their own interest and feel they have more in common with billionaires than the homeless on the street are starting to feel the pinch and waking up and wondering what’s going on. Glad to hear your area isn’t as bad and I completely agree that there is no escaping this situation anywhere it’s just “a little less shitty, and a tad bit less exploitative than other places”. I totally agree that it’s going to be real bad if there isn’t change I just hope if it does come down to that we’ll see a drastic shift in the way America operates or it will all be for nothing and just a short reprieve before the machine starts to grind away at the general public once again.