Esse texto do Donovan lembra muito a teoria da não-boiolagem do Nicolas.
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I've been swimming in the mornings lately.
The crowd is mostly older, with a lot of Orientals and the occasional Russian. (I say Oriental, because I overheard an old Asian refer to herself as an Oriental, as she remarked to a friend that "many Orientals seem to be smart.")
After swimming I sit in the sauna, then the hot tub. Meditating. Trying to space out.
I have ear buds in. Right now it's this new Forndom album, Dauðra Dura. No idea what it means. Not sure I want to.
At some point, over the music or my panicked breaths in between laps, there is always some middle aged white guy trying to talk to someone -- anyone -- about what's going on in the world. Looking for confirmation that he's not crazy, that he's not the only one. It's not even always the same guy. He's talking about ISIS or trannies in bathrooms or women in combat or Hillary or Obama or the latest social justice warrior bullshit. He's probably never heard the term, "social justice warrior." This stuff just keeps trickling down to him, and he needs to talk about it, because he can't believe it.
I'm already past all of that. I don't want it in my world. I refuse to inhabit that mental space anymore. I turn the music up and try to tune him out, but it gets in my head a little.
I don't bother talking to strangers. I'd be speaking another language. And I just don't care enough.
But what I'd ask that guy, or guys like that, is this:
When are you going to be done expressing your feelings about these things you can't control?
Is it enough to be upset and have someone else agree that things are upsetting?
Or is there a point where you make a psychological break with the nation that embraces these things?
Is there a point where you stop complaining and change yourself?
Is there a point where you re-orient yourself and alter your identity and your attachments?
Is this just pointless social gossip, or is there a point where you take action?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BF7dZBbgKEg/
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Essa é uma descrição perfeita do facebook nos últimos dias, visto que com o caso do suposto estupro de uma menina por 33 homens transformou todo mundo em especialista em direito, perícia criminal, sociologia, etc e todos estão fazendo textão "indignados".
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I've been swimming in the mornings lately.
The crowd is mostly older, with a lot of Orientals and the occasional Russian. (I say Oriental, because I overheard an old Asian refer to herself as an Oriental, as she remarked to a friend that "many Orientals seem to be smart.")
After swimming I sit in the sauna, then the hot tub. Meditating. Trying to space out.
I have ear buds in. Right now it's this new Forndom album, Dauðra Dura. No idea what it means. Not sure I want to.
At some point, over the music or my panicked breaths in between laps, there is always some middle aged white guy trying to talk to someone -- anyone -- about what's going on in the world. Looking for confirmation that he's not crazy, that he's not the only one. It's not even always the same guy. He's talking about ISIS or trannies in bathrooms or women in combat or Hillary or Obama or the latest social justice warrior bullshit. He's probably never heard the term, "social justice warrior." This stuff just keeps trickling down to him, and he needs to talk about it, because he can't believe it.
I'm already past all of that. I don't want it in my world. I refuse to inhabit that mental space anymore. I turn the music up and try to tune him out, but it gets in my head a little.
I don't bother talking to strangers. I'd be speaking another language. And I just don't care enough.
But what I'd ask that guy, or guys like that, is this:
When are you going to be done expressing your feelings about these things you can't control?
Is it enough to be upset and have someone else agree that things are upsetting?
Or is there a point where you make a psychological break with the nation that embraces these things?
Is there a point where you stop complaining and change yourself?
Is there a point where you re-orient yourself and alter your identity and your attachments?
Is this just pointless social gossip, or is there a point where you take action?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BF7dZBbgKEg/
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Essa é uma descrição perfeita do facebook nos últimos dias, visto que com o caso do suposto estupro de uma menina por 33 homens transformou todo mundo em especialista em direito, perícia criminal, sociologia, etc e todos estão fazendo textão "indignados".
