Here I collate some interesting text I've read recently, be it an article, poem, essay, comment, and what have you. Divided by the month, by the year.
Living in reality means becoming a scientist of shame.
This is your escape, it is quiet and lonesome and hard and it's entirely yours.
This is an important distinction. Failure is inevitable failure to be the best person you can be, to not err and offend, to not alienate others. But for those serious about material progress, failure is necessary to the building of a larger political project. For the Secular Puritans, the tenderqueers, and their ilk, failure is their goal.
Resolution: GA#697Despite the absolutely banal archaic language and gross amount of hedging, it nonetheless flows very well.
kinder than manIf I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder.
Where it is Easy to Do GoodSuddenly, it all makes sense. The impossible requests, the wildly difficult farming, the over-leveled monsters, the rusty tools, the non-upgradeable weapons, the dangerous wilderness, the villagers who claim they’ll charge me “next time,” the friendships that never became romantic, the lack of plot: I had been playing inside of an introduction sequence. I had built my whole life inside of the tutorial.