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Mr. Robot S2 Theory

I still don’t understand why people like sports. They get so emotional over the weirdest things. But I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.

Naval Ravikant on Tim Ferriss’s podcast

The Chinese glyph for the word crisis contains two symbols; one means danger and the other opportunity.

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

I couldn't relinquish my desires or accept them, and so I strolled along like a tiger that wanted to spring but was still afraid of the wildness within.

I started to understand that a poem was a dynamic system that depended on a connection to the vital & coursing elements of my own actual life as it had been lived & as I was currently living it. [...] Nate Pritts is still alive & writing poems that reflect his complete & utter confusion about being alive in language that struggles to pin down exact & emotional statements about a world that is constantly forcing him to THINK rather than FEEL. "I think if a person is going to live in this world [...] that person then owes it to the world, to themselves, to other people, to live on fire – to be HOT as Charles Olson says. To bust our asses. To work really hard. To meet our experiences head on & give of ourselves almost to a fault. "Gregory Corso says, 'I love poetry because poetry makes me love.' We need to risk being HOT, we need to err on the side of sentimentality, feeling, & grand extension.

This ends in darkness

Together in that first sun, so vivid: there must be a pattern

This is a memory now.

Sun fingering its way through branches I'd hung my life on.

I could never close my eyes to light. But there was no light & you looked like night.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.