Mark K

"[...]the whispering descent of corporate Web crawlers itching to index and corrupt another patch of sanctuary for their own ends. Then it’ll be just like up there in the shallows. Link by link, they’ll bring it all under control, safe and respectable." —Thomas Pynchon

No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid this folly and live his life in order. —Eric Voegelin

Nurturing and cultivating cognitive clarity about mission on an interpersonal level—just as it is with sincerity, intent and intuitive discernment on a personal level—is a muscle that needs consistent exercise Read: brownstone.org/articles/why-o…

“Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.” from ‘They Thought They Were Free’ by Milton Mayer

"....a credentialed class psychologically invested in defending the system that elevated them, even when that system causes harm." -@jstylman brownstone.org/articles/how-s…

Gigi Foster on how our decisions that are not consciously chosen may be the right decisions but for the wrong reason: Without choice there is no such thing as morality. clip from: youtube.com/watch?v=rd8P9i…

Say what: The slow motion chaos cascading in the world today is driven by a collective awakening that is accelerated by the internet & social media The only thing to retard/contain the process is the ubiquitous digitization of all forms of civic engagement to be curated by AIs?

"But this pulling-away was [...] more like being drugged. Reality lost its rich, deep dimensionality & its sense of possibility & the future, & became reduced to its narrowest dimensions." -@wstorr Wow! Sounds like a description of lost childhood from: willstorr.substack.com/p/decoding-the…

"Rather die on a rock than enslaved to another’s expert definition of freedom. "Democracy depends on our willingness to allow others to say what we consider deeply wrong. Bodily autonomy has the same basis." an axiomatic first principle by @bell00david > brownstone.org/articles/to-di…

If you cannot let yourself be supported and 'take' a hand: you have never really given one to begin with We need each other because we are nothing on our own We need each other because we complement one another clip > The Snow Walker (2003) song > @StillCorners: The Photograph

the simplest thing is the hardest to take in— the beauty of the ephemerality of reality the recognition that nothing belongs to me that I will lose everything that I cannot lose anything given that I don’t own anything besides the fullness of this moment my presence of mind to it

People in power prioritize the maintenance of Order over (& even at the expense of) the truth Which is (to a certain extent) justifiable For though in spirit we are all whole & awesome, none of us is wholesome (But then: true order is downstream of the truth) clip: Zipper (2015)

The Forest was shrinking but The Trees kept falling for The Axes as their handles were made of wood and The Trees thought that The Axes were one of them—A more advanced version of them #deracination

I hate when a tweet ends with the line: “That’s the tweet.” That’s the tweet.