whimsy is a virtue I think. one of the more important ones, especially if you're about to embark on a serious undertaking. and when things are getting distinctly unwhimsical in a situation it's generally a sign you ought to make yourself scarce.
imagine being a billionaire. like, you put in work, nearly fail, but push onward anyways. you develop something novel. you make it scale. you push the envelop to do something that's never been done before. but then, part of the thing you win in the end game is a bunch of communists saying you should die or that you should be forced to hand over what you've earned smh. what an infantile ideology
"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria"- Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most boring forms of discourse is when two opposing sides are like, "They're hypocrites!" "No, they're the hypocrite!"
I walk down the city streets, in an unsuspectin' human world. Inhuman in your midst. Well, this world is mine to own.
Art is like religion in that it represents something that is beyond the reach of empiricism. The element of fantasy is inextinguishable. Spinoza made the chief distinction that religion, unlike superstition, was founded on knowledge rather than ignorance. But what if, in stark contrast to things forged from knowledge, art is, at times, profoundly further from knowledge than it appears? And there, we might see that art isn't necessarily deep; it's just a mirror, and the mind is an abyss. Yes, I say this as someone who both appreciates and creates art. Criticizing art; classic artist move.
Tethys
A gold medallion featuring a high-relief depiction of Tethys seated on a seahorse amid stylised waves, ca.300/200 BC., 7x6.5 cm, weight 25 gr
Private Collection
3.141592653589793238462643383279502
Reddgio
A list of pleasant things: lists, autumn, winter, walks, computers, libgen, z-lib, coffee, birds, space, music, podcasts, robots, anime.
*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-