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"Precession of Simulacra:
Disneyland, Watergate, Reality TV, Nuclear Warfare
Simulacra: events or spectacles that hide the fact that behind them, there is no real. All working towards a social order with no discernible source of power. “Illegible violence.”
It’s tough to get through but exhilarating writing all the same. Just trying to swim through it." — Jan 19, 2026 12:47PM
"Precession of Simulacra:
Disneyland, Watergate, Reality TV, Nuclear Warfare
Simulacra: events or spectacles that hide the fact that behind them, there is no real. All working towards a social order with no discernible source of power. “Illegible violence.”
It’s tough to get through but exhilarating writing all the same. Just trying to swim through it." — Jan 19, 2026 12:47PM
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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