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babe wake up the new franz kafka diary entry that eerily parallels your feelings and situations corresponding to each specific date just dropped

- Sun Wukong

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Human memory is selective. This is how it differs from a database. It is narrative, whereas digital memories are additive and cumulative. A narrative depends on a selection and connection of events. It proceeds in a selective fashion. The narrative path is narrow. It comprises only selected events. The narrated or remembered life is necessarily incomplete. Digital platforms, by contrast, seek to create a complete record of a life. The less narration there is, the more data and information there are. Byung-Chul Han. 2024. The Crisis of Narration. Cambridge: Polity Press.

"Unlearning attachments is just incredibly slow and difficult and you cannot just will it. I mean, you can will your desire for it and you can make yourself ready. But the undoing of your viscera takes forever even as you get so embarrassed by your own mind and ideation. It’s like: ‘I’m not thinking that; it is thinking itself. And I have to own that because it’s in me, but it’s not real. It’s not what I identify with or want to build. What do I do with all that stuff?’ —Lauren Berlant, in interview

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering