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@lair_softwareOct 24
You can't 'have taste' second-hand. You must face the world first-person, soak in the immanent and sensorial totality of the here and now, and use your concepts and signals as a map to find treasure, not as the treasure itself.
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@TylerAltermanOct 24
The main reason a person lacks taste is that he's trying to decide what's good and bad using *concepts.* He watches a movie, and before deciding whether he should like it, he queries his identity: "I'm a cultured person. What would a cultured person think of this?" He queries the current status landscape: "What do critics and internet edgelords think of this?" He assesses genre: "This is a [superhero movie], which means I'm not allowed to like it." He does everything other than simply perceive, like a baby would, or a mystic or a fool. Do these particular lights and sounds make him happy? Do the expressions on the actor's face right now move him? He doesn't know. He's not paying attention to that. He's too busy feeding his sense impressions into the vast insentient machine of the conceptual mind. Does this man live inside you? I promise you this: as soon as you invite him to go on vacation, you will start developing taste immediately wherever you point your attention.
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You can't 'have taste' second-hand. You must face the world first-person, soak in the immanent and sensorial totality of the here and now, and use your concepts and signals as a map to find treasure, not as the treasure itself.
Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply
@TylerAltermanOct 24
The main reason a person lacks taste is that he's trying to decide what's good and bad using *concepts.* He watches a movie, and before deciding whether he should like it, he queries his identity: "I'm a cultured person. What would a cultured person think of this?" He queries the current status landscape: "What do critics and internet edgelords think of this?" He assesses genre: "This is a [superhero movie], which means I'm not allowed to like it." He does everything other than simply perceive, like a baby would, or a mystic or a fool. Do these particular lights and sounds make him happy? Do the expressions on the actor's face right now move him? He doesn't know. He's not paying attention to that. He's too busy feeding his sense impressions into the vast insentient machine of the conceptual mind. Does this man live inside you? I promise you this: as soon as you invite him to go on vacation, you will start developing taste immediately wherever you point your attention.
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I found my two favourite Alans to be most excellent mentors in this endeavour. bbcmaestro.com/courses/alan-… audible.com.au/pd/Out-of-You…

Alan Moore | Storytelling

Learn the craft of storytelling with literary maestro, Alan Moore. Discover how to build story, character, setting and plot in this online writing course.

bbcmaestro.com
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Alcuin Press
@AlcuinPressOct 22
What. a. line. G.K. Chesterton
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Istra of Glome
@byistraOct 19
G.K. Chesterton on mysticism
Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.

ALT Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.

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無事人
@foodofthegods3Oct 15
The Fool is just the Magician who forgot what he's doing—fooling himself!
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If you've not watched the original Cosmos television series you've not lived 😎
maja 🔭🍒
@majamediacoOct 11
I wanna see more Carl Sagan energy in tech
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taste = unique subjective appreciation of life's forms style = result of the degree to which one activates/embodys one's taste taste is shaped by what you consume style by what you create, and the more you create, the closer you get to evoking or even transcending your taste
ben hylak
@benhylakSep 21
taste is mostly not something you're born with. it's something that is fucking drilled into your skull in the most painful ways possible, from childhood to every second after.
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People out here asking Claude to fetch the next page of their Harry Potter ebook for them claiming chat is the endgame interface
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Still true one month later 🕳️🐇
Lair 
@lair_softwareAug 13
Replying to @majamediaco
weird and esoteric rabbit holes are the proving ground for anyone looking to make literally anything of value the closer your set of interests are to mainstream pop culture the less meaningful novelty you're capable of manifesting
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みはら@Portach333Aug 28
アイルランド西部の旅、行ってよかった。道行く人たちと話せたのが、よかった。遺跡で居合わせた親子が解説をしてくれたり、道を尋ねてきたマダムと立ち話をして、お互い孤独な気持ちのままここを訪れたことを分かち合って、励まし合ったりした。そういう瞬間ごとに、すごく胸の内がじーんとした
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Most spiritual practice is about taking off these goggles
Lair 
@lair_softwareAug 28
Replying to @TobinSouth
“I had a French professor who once said if you just did something like go to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and categories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy.”
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@byistraAug 26
C.S. Lewis, a special kind of longing
In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what. It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. This is a special kind of longing.

ALT In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what. It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. This is a special kind of longing.

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Osho on seriousness, “I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.”
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philosophy and logic, in addition to being excellent for improving the foundations of one's thinking, are critically important as a means of making individuals 'not retarded'
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Ever yearned for a memex? Is Apple Notes really so comfortable a home? 🥹
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Collections in Lair are excellent for capturing research on a rabbit hole you're diving into. 🐇 Lair is an app for playing and obsessing over text and media to bring your work and plans to life.
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Grok 4.6 reset blessedly doesn't change the next reset date. You use a reset mid-way through your week, and then you only have to wait half a week for your real reset. This is how it should be. Thank you @xai @elonmusk
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4.6 is BIG, but it needs Computer Use to really contend for top spot
Elon Musk
@elonmuskAug 16
Grok 4.6
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