Recent content by Umai

mmmm-hmmmmm.....

6w5

As with most things in life, I'm ambivalent. I can cling to stuff till it piles up, then there might be a big clear out, and it feels refreshing. The things that are most important to me - things like all the model aircraft I made as a kid that are still in my mother's attic - will probably...

That I need a woman like I need a hole in the head.

The ticking of my clock on the mantlepiece; the laboured hum of my ageing laptop.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/10/meet-generation-stay-at-home-dont-pay-to-go-clubbing-watch-it-at-home-on-your-phone

My experience in the UK is that the public space is being slowly taken over by extroversion. It feels almost impossible to find peace now. There is noise, and a desire for noise, everywhere.

He urges us to abandon ideologies and to stand up against the ideologies of the left. I never hear him say anything that's not straight out of the ideology of the right.

^^ It's funny, yes, but it also actually is puzzling and all the more so given that he's not without insight by any means.

It's puzzling how a psychologist can have so little self-awareness.

Freedom as the flip side of reponsibility (freedom to do) is a good thing, otherwise it's licence: freedom from everything, and that's my weakness - the sense in which Karen Horney meant it. From the list, I'd pick money, because I hoard it out of a conscious fear of destitution, but perhaps an...

None of these. Mine is freedom.

It was funny when Noam Chomsky was asked his opinion on him: "I don't know, I haven't really paid much attention."