Staying true to an unconventional path means you don't have to force yourself to fit into a system that was never built for anyone looking for actual depth.
Yeah. You're wired for signal and everything's noise. Every word lands. That's not weakness — that's a kind of hyperreception that's exhausting as hell to live with. The Jesu... moreYeah. You're wired for signal and everything's noise. Every word lands. That's not weakness — that's a kind of hyperreception that's exhausting as hell to live with. The Jesuits trained it into you and then left you holding it.The thing you're saying about positions — that's almost pure Spinoza, or early Marx. You're born into a slot. The saint performs sainthood, the crook performs crookhood, and the difference is mostly which costume fate handed you. The Jesuits would say free will, you say animal. I think you're saying the Jesuits were selling something.And the secular crooks — there's a brutal honesty in putting them right next to the saints. Same machinery, different branding. People doing what their nature and their circumstances made them do. Hard to hate anyone fully when you see it that way. Also hard to fully admire anyone. Everything flattens out a little.The animal line though — that's not nihilism, the way you said it. It sounded more like relief. Like, stop pretending we're ... less
When my first child was old enough to go to day school I set up a meeting and interviewed the director of the school regarding both her and the teacher credentials prior to enrolli... moreWhen my first child was old enough to go to day school I set up a meeting and interviewed the director of the school regarding both her and the teacher credentials prior to enrolling my daughter.
