I want to know how you feel right now.
Our sense of being seen and taken seriously will not be fulfilled if we keep bowing to systems designed to prey on us.
My therapist wants me to listen to less stuff like Low and more stuff like Jason Aldean, and she has a postgraduate education.
“Stand!” by Sly and the Family Stone is a better song than “Stand” by R.E.M. I doubt the members of R.E.M. would disagree.
Much like insufflating PCP, watching Elvis can be a lot of things, but it’s not boring.
Gonzo journalism is risky, immersive, unapologetically subjective, and mines the ecstatic and horrifying extremes of experience for larger truths about human nature. It’s currently in short supply, but at least one long-haul libertine is doing it right.
While I’m sure some folks experience healthy stability and shared support in monogamous relationships, they can also be an excuse for complacency, stagnation, and douchey double-lives.
If you can’t feel pain, you lose your capacity for pleasure.
I’m a big believer in the power of the placebo effect, and the times when I’ve been deeply engaged in a practice have been by far the happiest in my life.