Jessie’s Reviews > I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World > Status Update

“Our grief and fear exist only because love was there first”

“AI tries to make art by combining data. Then perfecting it. It’s advanced mimicry. But humans create art by combining data with experience, with messy, awkward emotions and life lessons, with notions of awe and sublimity, and with our relationships, and in beautifully imperfect ways”

“If we don’t matter any more or less than any other glorious expression of life, we don’t need to fear what comes next because we are part of a bigger picture, a more important, throbbing, infinite project.”

“…sometimes the tears, when we’ve cried enough, clear our eyes to see what joy lays on the other side of all that sorrow”

“If i disagree with other people, I can walk away; but I cannot walk away from myself… if I do wrong, I am condemned to live together with a wrongdoer in an unbearable intimacy” - Hannah Arendt (1964 essay on Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship)

“Liminality is a lovely word. It had an onomatopoeic tinkle to it.
It describes a time or space between two things. It stems from the Greek word for ‘threshold’, that place between two rooms…”

A concerning quote from Italian fascist Filippo Tomasso Marinetti in his Futurist Manifesto written in 1909, that was adapted into the 2023 Techo-Optimist Manifesto by Marc Andreessen:

“Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before men” [1909 quote]

“An organisation that commits to helping society manage a problem also commits itself to the preservation of that same problem, as its institutional existence hinges on society’s continued need for its management”

“Grief is like falling in love, he told me. You fall and you fall. You fall toward something, toward the thing you’re grieving, the thing that is no longer there. Eventually, after you’ve fallen and fallen and fallen, after you’ve lived through the grieving, you land. And instead of landing at the loved one or loved thing, you land at yourself”