When you’re fed up and want to break the system, introduce and perform what is lacking.
Our current capital-driven system praises intelligence and polite compromise.
To counter it, you can manifest an inversion tactic that embodies disenfranchised values (for instance) by effectuating emotional irrationalities and unwavering integrity.
Tag: values
- Theme: Growth
Disruption through embodied inversion
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Growth
finding your purpose is submission
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1–2 minutesFinding purpose so we can live a meaningful existence is a crutch. Life is already meaningful: we are looking for additional security.
It is easier to glorify a singular principle (i.e., goodness, justice, God) and then submit to its precepts than to exist in an original state of chaos and confusion.
This universal submission may be for the net good, but it is slavery to a social ideal.
- Theme: Politics
the power of precedence
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1–2 minutesSet a precedent, and people will link to it as validation.
We must portray a new situation as similar to the precedent by stripping away context for correspondence (alignment).
We appeal to the prior decision because we consider logical consistency valid, a bedrock of fairness and justice.
Yet, every situation is unique in its specifics, and similarity is merely a heuristic. In this regard, popularity is as valid an appeal as precedence. - Theme: Self
Don’t be afraid to lose yourself.
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1–2 minutesBehind your individuality (that is, your sensations unified into experiences that constitute your personality) lays life itself.
It was there before you were you.
As a child, you exhibited peculiarities but not subjective identity, yet life itself was valued before the complication of personality coalesced. - Theme: Self
the false appearance of life-affirming activities
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1–2 minutesWhat if the model (image) for life-affirming acts is life-negating?
The vacation pictures on social media, the concerts, and the active lifestyle: when you need an escape from living, they orient you away from the reality of life into the unsustainable emotional image of fulfillment. The "image of life" is a peak placebo that, though fun, can capture and invert priorities even when you are aware of the seduction. - Theme: Self
Mimetic Desire Training
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1–2 minutesYou don’t want what you want. What you wish for has been introduced to you.
Take control of your mimetic desire by choosing to love what you have and surrounding yourself with a reinforcing group that values perennial values.
- Theme: Self
Life as a puzzle or a garden
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1–2 minutesWe tend to think if you remove a piece of your life it can be replaced with a new, more thoughtfully chosen priority.
But controlling life as a puzzle is a nightmare: pieces shrink, expand, and multiply when you are not looking.
We cannot trade portions of life. Life is rhizomatic and flowing: to remain living it needs boundaries and weeding, not rigidity.
- Theme: Growth
Why defend (and fund) the arts?
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1–2 minutesThe village may pay the bard, who does not defend the village, but the bard can make the village worth defending.
~ Balaji Srinivasan - Theme: Self
Pain is a Re-prioritizer
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1–2 minutesIn the midst of hurting, assigning importance becomes obvious: without our health, we can not pursue frivolities.
I care nothing about work, deadlines, or money in the throes of a migraine. I only want back my ability to function and move through the world, think, and attend to those I care about. In pain, I cease to be me.