"Love me or hate me, I promise it won’t make or break me"
1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.
2. Do not have faith in institutions to…
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
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To reverse this situation, we must become so intimate with wild animals, with plants and places, that we answer to their destruction from the gut. Like when we discover the landlady strangling our cat.
We only value what we know and love, and we no longer know or love the wild. So instead we accept substitutes, imitations, semblances, and fakes- a diminished wild. We accept abstract information in place of personal experience and communication.
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Coffee and some James Vincent McMorrow.
I’M NOT AFRAID OF DYING.
I’M AFRAID OF NOT BEING AFRAID OF DYING.
I DON’T HAVE MUCH ANY SENSE OF SELF-PRESERVATION.

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