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We cannot renounce our fates anymore than we can change the past; our lives have a very deep order that exerts far more force, a far stronger force, than the weak force of our ‘intentions.’ The individual is a kind of abstraction or dream that merges from the vertical and horizontal (multidimensional) grid of social and biological forces.
It took six billion years to evolve language, but only a few thousand, beyond that point, to evolve a Shakespeare, Milton, or Joyce.
Checklist for the Millennial ‘good’ life:
- domestic relationship
- job in corporate (but like sunny good optics start up corporate)
- fitness routine
- restrictionist diet
- podcast (which you relentlessly push in a kind of weird uncomfortable way)
- therapist (who is like super cool and your friend)
- brunch reservation
- a social media “brand”
- just enough self-awareness not to be self-aware
- token liberalism
A revolution does not begin with the burning of institutions, or marches, or mob rule — a revolution begins the second that ordinary people gain the self-respect to ask for a world suitable for the growth of their souls.
