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@parallelselves

"One never reaches home, but where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time." ∿ en/sp/fr

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sometimes you’ll be okay and suddenly an anxiety like a car crash overwhelms you in such a manner you are thrown back into the body of a defenseless toddler version of you hearing the sound of her parents’ screams for the first time

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years of psychosocial damage would be undone if we collectively learned to navigate the internet with the mindset that No Absolutes Apply, Not Everything is About Me & ultimately Strangers Do Not Know the Particular Circumstances of My Life and thus Cannot Fix it or Diagnose Me

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i’m still thinking of the harper’s article btw and how so many niche online communities run on doublespeak and cognitive self-rearrangement as devotional systems built to revere the very despair that created them. then again that is so intensely human

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stopped monthly wrap ups & reading threads bc i’m consuming 10+ books at any given time + doing a lot of writing & cross referencing/actively working on parallels. but i should start a thread of quotes/specific stylistic choices that made go good god words were invented for this

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dfw neil postman jg ballard harlan ellison aldous huxley phillip k dick david cronenberg jean baudrillard… the gooner article is just the tip of the iceberg