From 454f75195ca9718404ef276a45ad9441b9c4d66e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dusk Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 18:22:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added ttbp notes --- feels-notes.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 feels-notes.md diff --git a/feels-notes.md b/feels-notes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ccaf69 --- /dev/null +++ b/feels-notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +~dusk's ideas for feels +======================= + +## 2025-09-06 ismatu gwendolyn: on money and "reality" + +i stumbled upon this youtube video essay yesterday. +i'm having trouble describing it now, +but it's written and presented with incredible lucidity and frankness. +ismatu published both a written *and* video version, +but their delivery in the video is too good to miss. + +ismatu says that "reality" is only that which we participate in. +the primary vehicle for this idea is their teaching that +american dollars are purely an imaginary concept, +supposed to be a clean abstraction from the material world to the economic, +but which are only so on the very surface. +the thought that really stuck with me was: +if money is made-up, +and falls from the sky where the money-makers live, +and can be created freely simply by saying so with the right authority... +why should we ever struggle to hoard it? + +the "realities" of this world +are nothing more than the thoughts we all agree to share. +wake up; do not live to work, +to fuel the capitalistic death machine +with your stressors repressed in the name of feeling better. +wake up; live now. + +ismatu gwendolyn. +_on money: the strip club did indeed make me bonkers!_. +Threadings. +13 August 2025. +[text](https://www.threadings.io/the-strip-club-did-indeed-make-me-bonkers/) +, [video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7cTavTTps).