Remixing with a @breehgreenberg idea:
Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
Remixing with a @breehgreenberg idea: Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
Introducing uncertainty sometimes requires nothing more than letting go of the illusion of certitude.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
The security of having our needs met allows us to have real autonomy and creative agency in the world.
Astra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Trust, though, is an immensely socially useful technology. Human civilization has a fundamental limitation in that all humans can be trivially killed while sleeping. Huge portions of society’s efforts go toward establishing conditions where this trivial vulnerability virtually never gets exploited. God has, reportedly, closed all bug reports claimi... See more
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
At the base of almost everything, the resulting truth is this: we don’t know. When we disregard this unknowingness, we can easily become disinterested, uninspired, and worn out of this life. We can put great stress on things that perhaps don’t matter all that much and neglect experiences and things that do. We can feel the pressure and anxiety of c
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