Door sounds like you’ve lost at a video game 😂

The human psyche has weather. When we feel bad about the present and future, it’s cloudy in our psyche. When our psyche is cloudy, it colors everything. Things feel gloomier, angrier, scarier, and more depressing. This of course has all kinds of negative effects on behavior. /1

Likewise, gratitude and optimism open up a bright blue sky in the psyche. This feels blissful and energizing and fosters kindness. These behaviors generate more of the weather that produced them. So psyche weather is contagious, and it can spread like an epidemic. /2

People know something is wrong in society right now but it can be hard to articulate. I think what sucks right now is that a massive epidemic, maybe pandemic, of dark cloudy psyche skies has spread. (Covid doesn’t help, but this has been going on a lot longer than Covid.) /3

I think a huge part of the problem is that the antidote to a negativity epidemic is sunny rhetoric—but the political atmosphere has made sunny rhetoric *taboo*. Expressing gratitude and optimism will get you smeared as callous, privileged, ignorant, malicious. /4

And part of the reason for this reaction is that pessimism, cynicism, and grievance are the lifeblood of political extremism. Extreme narratives need to crush sunny mentality like a virus in order to survive. The punishing of positivity is an immune system response. /5

I don’t think this is usually malicious. It’s having been convinced that reality is so grim that it seems like anyone who feels otherwise must be an asshole or an idiot. /end

I try to assume the best intention in the actions of others. The internet too often seems to want to do the opposite. I think the former is way better than the latter if your goal is to be productive, gain understanding, solve problems, and find happiness in this life.

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” - Muhammad Ali

Humans have identified themselves throughout history by: - Villages - Countries - Religion - Race Etc.. The final step in this journey will be for us to identify as human foremost and all else second. This will be necessary when we inevitably make first contact with Aliens.

Precisely

We should send rockets not at each other, but rather to the stars

Kids can’t sleep tonight because they’re too excited for tomorrow morning 🎄. Adults can’t sleep because they’re thinking about all their problems. Soon we’ll all become kids again. Sleep tight.

build monuments in the desert

Do you feel love? My full vocal cover of BAD OMENS - Specter is out now! Let me know what you think 🤘🏻

Talmage’s bike took flight, stunning his friends. He flew one lap around the school and landed safely by the jungle gym.  Jasper approached and fist-pumped “respect Talmage for not giving up.” My six-year-old son is tucked into bed, his eyes are lit up. These stories feel real

New cover of “Circle With Me” by Spiritbox - The full video is on my YouTube channel, link in bio!

A clip from my cover of Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon Full video is on my YouTube channel 🖤

A clip from my cover of Silence by The Plot In You Full video is on my YouTube channel 🖤

5-MeO-DMT gave me a single idea that won't leave. Our minds are not naturally capable of understanding the preciousness of our existence. Not "life is precious" as printed on a poster. It's something much more specific. That the hardware we're running, human consciousness,