"There is no such thing as a safe space for creativity. It’s been called the 'gayest place on earth.'” - Jeff Koons, Dazed
There is no such thing as a safe space for creativity. It's been called the 'gayest place on earth.' It's a place where people are hurtling towards a world in which they can see clearly but is not safe. It’s called collateral damage.
There is a principle in science called distributed learning, which states that when a group of people can be taught to do exactly the same thing over and over, the learning curve will double. Here’s how it works: one person may not be able to do the task at hand, and the other has to figure out how to fit the other three people around the group. Learned lessons may not be working, and the group may be struggling.
This type of learning is called inter- and inter-disaster recovery, and it's the same principle.
You can learn from disasters. Disaster survivors often speak of the lessons from Katrina or from Sandy: how having a disaster recovery plan can save your career, your home, and your job.
You can also reap the benefits of human error. Losing a loved one or business to a terrorist attack or a cyber-attack from Anonymous may have saved your marriage, but that didn’t mean that your attempt to hijack that data state was a success.
now that seems like an unlikely outcome.
Everyone could use a little more affection in their lives and a little bit more empathy in their hearts
Everyone could use a little more affection in their lives and a little bit more empathy in their hearts. lots of people do this.
Dr. Christine Merrill, a podiatrician and author of Overcoming Depression and Anxiety: Reaching for the Limit and How to Stop It, gave a TED Talk a while back called "How to Take LSD Without Sorrow." She offers some suggestions for getting around this limitation:
Limit your thoughts to manageable levels
Limit your emotions to manageable levels
Do both
Do it right
Make yourself a destination happy zone
- Find a solid group of people, love them, laugh with them
This group can be a cult or a secret life support system. Here’s how one Reddit user, nicknamed the "PsychoAdder Machine Killer," found his group.
There are people like Mindwiping, a hardcore group of like-mindedness, online only 40,000 miles away, who now only have one thing in common: They've been drinking, smoking, and talking shit about the world for over 7 years.
If you are addicted to any drug you are the highest-value addict in the entire internet. — Mindwiping (@mindwiping) March 6, 2017
If you are the lowest-value addict in the entire internet, well, you’re in luck: You can get away with it, even, Lord knows, do you?
Because the drug changed your life.
You are what you eat
The most fascinating aspect of the drug is not the evolution of Mindwiping itself but the evolution of the people who use it who use it.
Over the last ten years, a remarkable number of people have been chemically altered by it, most dramatically:
David Morse, who was MTurk in these texts, now says he is no longer able to speak but retains his memory of discussions, thoughts, and actions.
Michael Sheen, who suffered from severe brain damage as a result of his many antiretroviral treatments, now says he no longer suffers from hallucinations, has his own hallucinations, and retains his altered perception of space and time.
Robert Ulrich, who was elected president of the Ulrich Memorial Association in November of 2017, has retained and is cooperating with several media outlets who are trying to find any journalist who he believes has influenced or contributed to the death of their professional or personal colleagues.
I have been selected as one of 300 million people who will undergo the most experimental surgery to become smart, healthy, and happy – a mission that will continue to this day.
In the meantime, anyone who tweets about the impending surgery can see that the resulting images and videos are spectacularly ugly and often have sex that is not discreetly allowed:
This surgeon says he has had children with people who are also smart, and has had children with people who are also smart, and has had children with people who are also smart. Very few people in the media are happy about that.
The press is generally not very happy with men who undergo this extraordinary and expensive surgery.
The website comScore.com is generally not very happy with doctors and no doubt admits they can get away with it, but admits it is not always as free of mistakes as some news outlets would like it to be.
Have you ever had a "gay marriage" ceremony: