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I still think about how stupid this whole thing was. My brain throws that V for Vendetta quote at me - “if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror”. I know, FB is at the heart of the bullshit, but also, *people went along with it*. “Just doing my job” etc https://t.co/RkmpUvK4UU
It’s hard for me to understand how people can live like this. I’m atypical in some way on this front, I seem to have a greater need for coherence and resonance across the various spheres of my life than others. I find it very difficult & painful to partition, to do bullshit work
I think I was radicalised from a young age by books and libraries. From my earliest days, authors got it into my head that life can be a glorious adventure, that it can be lived *honestly*, with passion, that you don’t have to bullshit people even as people bullshit you
Sometimes people say things like, “O, we have been damned because we have turned from God, without religion we are shallow, hedonistic beasts.” And I’m like ??? have you been to a library https://t.co/Nzr7htgG9g
Sometimes I think of humanity as this wretched factory farm, and then there’s The Light Of Human Consciousness - like a lighthouse in the vast uncaring emptiness of infinite space. Libraries are churches to the light of human consciousness https://t.co/3CHdNTC2PY
People writing books and making art are all part of the church of the light of human consciousness, trying to keep meaning, hope and love alive for future generations - even as the world around them is ravaged by cruelty, fear and selfishness https://t.co/Ha1Ba8ACy4
In 1940, French composer Oliver Messiaen was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A - a concentration camp. There, in horrific conditions, he met 3 fellow musicians - and he wrote and performed Quartet For The End Of Time https://t.co/NHyh3VSiEa
I am never truly alone, for I have the light of human consciousness pulsing through my nerves. I am a verse in a song that echoes through millennia. I am Feynman and Archimedes, I am laughter and joy, curiosity and awe, discovery and delight ...anyway, support your local library https://t.co/PMs1hP0X4d
