Do you know what's going on?
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shiels
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Holding everything together in your head
This is the hardest thing of all, isn't it? :confused::eek:
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shiels
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No I don’t. It’s the greatest source of sadness and sometimes the only relief. People who know what’s going on are bores, the most unfunny smug stick up the hole cunts imaginable - politicians, columnists, police, priests, people in tech, grumpy old people, taxi drivers, people who have taken too many drugs for too long.
But then also you do need to know whats going on a wee bit, or else youll be also very boring - eg children, people who have taken too many drugs for too long, fashion people, australians, people really into star signs, old people etc. you need some conviction as @thirdform might say. Id put the optimum at knowing about 29% of whats going on
But then also you do need to know whats going on a wee bit, or else youll be also very boring - eg children, people who have taken too many drugs for too long, fashion people, australians, people really into star signs, old people etc. you need some conviction as @thirdform might say. Id put the optimum at knowing about 29% of whats going on
shiels
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Or rather believing you know about 29% of whats going on - important distinction
a physicist or neuroscientist will come in here and say 'we know less than a 0.5% of whats going on!' and that would be a boring thing to say, but theyd be right. but you cant really believe that on a day-to-day physical level, on an ego level, you couldnt operate on that belief
a physicist or neuroscientist will come in here and say 'we know less than a 0.5% of whats going on!' and that would be a boring thing to say, but theyd be right. but you cant really believe that on a day-to-day physical level, on an ego level, you couldnt operate on that belief
other_life
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do you really know what it's aboouutt??
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Do they really know what's going on though?
other_life
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shiels what do you have against old people 😭
shiels
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They know too much and too little!
shiels
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Im interpreting the thread to be about how much we think we know rather than what we actually do. i think its the bigger issue here
william_kent
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luka
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we've lost all our people who knew what was going on,, or thought they did.
droid, padraig, craner.
tbf they could be annoying. sometimes you'd think, o shut up.
but on other occassions you'd think,, theyre more grown up than me.
they're trying to keep on top of things and make nice moral judgements.
droid, padraig, craner.
tbf they could be annoying. sometimes you'd think, o shut up.
but on other occassions you'd think,, theyre more grown up than me.
they're trying to keep on top of things and make nice moral judgements.
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I recently read an older person lamenting the amount of pressure they felt there was online to be an expert on everything from pop culture to geopolitics.
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What's going on?
my mate was telling me about her work colleague who doesn't have an interior voice. nothing. no noise. no questions. she reckons there's people who live in a kind of cognitive tranquility, while most people stagger about looking under rocks and getting spooked by noises in the dark wondering what the fuck is going on.
that's the same thing TS Eliot said drove him to nervous breakdown 100 odd years ago... so he ran off to Margate