Whatever the experience, of primary psychological importance is whether it ends with a feeling of satisfaction – as a thing in itself, independent of dynamics like achievement, fulfillment of goal or expectation, pride, pleasure, satiation, fullness, etc

February 11, 2025

Satisfaction is what closes off regret, shame, aloneness, shoulda, self-analysis, self-centeredness

Gaza might become Trump’s obsession, his chance at real world-shaping glory, at really building for the ages – like Rome, or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Taj Mahal, or the Pyramids

February 11, 2025

Including creating a permanent place for the Palestinians somewhere else, since he’s a magnanimous and caring king They say it’s never been done

Zuckerberg has followed Trump and Musk in eliminating fact-checking on Facebook in favor of “community moderating.”

January 7, 2025

As a form of tribalism, the way was paved for this in part by the displacement of rationality as a form of Western oppression. It’s not. It’s rationality. (Zuckerberg probably soaked it up at Harvard, in part from or because of the presence of people like me – all earnest to do good and to … More Zuckerberg has followed Trump and Musk in eliminating fact-checking on Facebook in favor of “community moderating.”