No matter how much rational bullshit we throw up into the air, we can't alter the bald truth of our situation, which is that life comes down to one thing and one thing only, which is risk. We do anything rather...
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What Buddhists call ‘the truth of anatta’ (or ‘the truth of selflessness’) isn't something dismal or terrible, and it isn't something grey, insipid and impersonal either; that's just how we imagine selflessness to be from the point of view of...
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The fact that we don't see that adapting 100% to the consensus reality is something that is always going to be injurious to our mental health has drastic consequences, naturally enough. The consequences are profound and penetrate every aspect of...
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The triumph of the replicator is simply to replicate. This is its ultimate achievement, the only achievement it is capable of recognizing. The beauty of this scheme – if we may call it that – is the way in which...
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