Deluded-wanderer - Deluded Wanderings

When its 5:19 in the morrning and your brain tells you to draw a spooky/ethereally cool dragon-like mythical monster thingy, listen to those urges, im making a *masterpiece* and i’ll show yall later :)

May 2020 Illustrations ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ

You're dedication will take you more places than giving up ever will. Times will be tough, yes, and it will feel as if you just want to quit it all together. So you'll rest for a day or two which feels like an eternity but you'll get back into the swing of things. You'll simply remember nothing ever stays the same. Ebbs & Flows. Rather on fighting the old you simply learn to dance with the devil instead.

maybe the answer to some mental health problems like depression and anxiety isn’t just therapists telling you it’s gonna be okay and psychiatrists giving you prozac maybe it’s just providing housing and some kind of life stability through public services which we pay millions in taxes for

Abled gays celebrating marriage equality: well we sure do have nowhere to go from here when it comes to marriage rights. Gay rights!

Me, a disabled lesbian trying to get on ssi thinking about how I will not be able to marry my girlfriend if I do because I can't have more than $2000 to my name at a time and they count a spouse's income towards that: wow .. gay rights ...

Anand Giridharadas:

“We often have these folk memories that are not our own memories, but are just kind of passed down. 

There’s a folk memory in tech of being a rebel, of being a hacker, of being a tinkerer on the outside.

And I think if you’re like 30 and working in tech, that just was never the actual story of your life.

I think the problem is they’ve clung to that folk memory even as they won.

So the analogy I use is, you see on the news these war-torn countries where you have a rebel army that is advancing on the capitol.

And you’ve got these rebel commanders in their berets sitting in the back of pickup trucks. They’ve got one gun, holding another gun.

Sometimes the rebels win. Sometimes the rebels actually make it to the palace. They become the new king, they become the president.

The old guy’s taken off in a helicopter to some exile country.

And it’s always a bad sign if the rebel, when they ascend to the palace, keeps their beret on.

Castro, Mugabe, Saddam, they all kept the beret. And what does it mean when you keep the beret? You haven’t accepted who you are.

You now actually are power. You’re not the rebel. You’re the establishment now and you haven’t processed your arrival. (…)

I think, when I was listening to [your interview with Mark Zuckerberg], my observation was… And I had the same feeling watching that Elon Musk spliff one.

I love to live in a world where there are all kinds of different people.

But I think we have to, just watching these guys, we have to acknowledge that they tend to be a very particular kind of person. Particular kind of man.

And they’re often these kind of boy-men who are not particularly developed in a lot of ways. They’re not cultivated.

That’s fine to have such people who kind of are not able to relate to other human beings and not able to connect to their emotions.

It’s great to have them in the world.

But to have so many of them essentially, now, in charge of what have become, basically, the locomotives of human history now, these various platforms, is really, really problematic.”

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Source: Recode Decode: ‘Winners Take All’ author Anand Giridharadas

MBTI: Anand Giridharadas: ENTJ, Mark Zuckerberg: INTP, Elon Musk: INTP

You have two coworkers named John, one short and one tall. As you normally would in this situation, you call them Big John and Little John. One day the tall John tells you that he doesn’t like being called Big John. You’re a decent person and stop doing it. It turns out when his depression was at its worst, he gained a lot of weight, and even though he’s lost weight and is secure in his body image, being called Big John reminds him of that time. He’s much more comfortable being called Tall John, Old John, his last name, or just John

You call everyone dude. You were raised in an area where dude is an all-purpose term. One day your coworker Mary tells you that she doesn’t like being called dude. You’re a decent person and stop doing it. It turns out she’s trans, and even though she’s transitioned and is satisfied and secure in her body, being called dude makes her dysphoric. She’s much more comfortable being called girl, pal, or just Mary.

If situation one is so obvious, why isn’t two? Just be a decent person, don’t call people what they don’t want to be called, and don’t make them give you their reasons. It’s that simple

what is it about having anxiety that makes you so insane. like every time i go to my job where i work i expect someone to tell me to leave. like i walk in and im like well i bet im not supposed to be here. even though all signs point to me needing to be there