We Have A Need For Enchantment That

The Stories We Are Told Shape The Way We See The World, Which Shapes The Way We Experience The World.

I No Longer See Descartes' Statement As Arbitrary. It Is Representative Of Our Culture's Narcissism. This Narcissism Leads To A Disturbing Disrespect For Direct Experience And A Negation Of The Body.

Those In Power Have Made It So We Have To Pay Simply To Exist On The Planet. We Have To Pay For A Place To Sleep, And We Have To Pay For Food. If We Don't, People With Guns Come And Force Us To Pay. That's Violent.

Casey Maddox Wrote That When Philosophy Dies, Action Begins. I Would Say In Addition That When We Stop Hoping For External Assistance, When We Stop Hoping That The Awful Situation We're In Will Somehow Resolve Itself, When We Stop Hoping The Situation Will Somehow Not Get Worse, Then We Are Finally Free - Truly Free - To Honestly Start Working To Thoroughly Resolve It. I Would Say When Hope Dies, Action Begins.

Writing Is Really Very Easy. Tap A Vein And Bleed Onto The Page. Everything Else Is Just Technical.