MathiasTCK.bsky.socialNov 9
It's not real! We are made to want this thing we cannot have by an #AbominableIntelligence! It was #AlgorithmicallyTrained on our hearts and desires to create for us a vision of an #unattainable perfect consumer product! What is ever eventually shipped, if anything, will disappoint and #embitter!
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 2, 2025

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #books #experience #goal #impossible #mortality #reading #surfeit #unattainable #aspiration

Show threadLaemenPangDec 6, 2024
@Lazarou They feel nothing, they are dead inside. #Devoid. It is unsatisfied need for #Power and #Kapital at the expense of #HumanLife. It is a #LegalCrime world for most of us, and we are the victims. Victimized in every way you can concieve of since birth, but you are unaware or in #Denial. As the trajectory of your life goes on, you realize that #Autonomy and #Agency are hard to find, maybe in the absolute sense #Unattainable. #ConflictTheory
Fishing Without Bait PodcastJun 13, 2023

Classic Fishing Without Bait 366: Push the Start Button — Fishing Without Bait

https://www.fishingwithoutbait.com/episodes/2023/1/10/fishing-without-bait-366-push-the-start-button-kxpfs

#Goals #Conditions #Unattainable #Pyramid #StartButton

Classic Fishing Without Bait 366: Push the Start Button — Fishing Without Bait

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike are together again as we talk about our goals.  Are we adding too many “conditions” to your goals to make them unattainable? What end of the pyramid are we building? How do we hit the start button.  

Fishing Without Bait
John EarleMay 9, 2023

Why is it now unattainable utopianism to want what we all had only a few years ago? | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/05/09/why-is-it-now-unattainable-utopianism-to-want-what-we-all-had-only-a-few-years-ago/

#neoliberalism #public #services #society #unattainable #utopianism #delusion #naive #fair #society

Why is it now unattainable utopianism to want what we all had only a few years ago?

It’s a good question, isn’t it? Why are people who might broadly be described as socialists routinely ridiculed and patronised for ‘immaturity,’ ‘delusion,’ ‘utopianism,’ ‘naivety,’ ‘dr…

Vox Political