dreaming

why the fuck do we have one word for three things:

1. the sleep phenomenon when your brain makes a little movies for you
2. aspirations, ambitions, ideals
3. like, pipe dreams, or really stupid ideas, ie “you’re dreaming. get real.”

I want to talk about #2. This kind of dreaming is a skill - you can practice/train it. you can be good or bad at it.

setting goals

in order to set a “good” goal, first you have to dream.

don’t let society dream for you. being rich, being beautiful, and being cool are dumb goals. they are #3 or #1 style dreams. it’s fine to be poor, ugly, and cringe. anyone who says otherwise is miserable and wants company in their misery.

you have to set your goals autonomously. but how to do this? we’ve been trying to fit in our whole lives. we’ve been training the opposite of this.

you can hire a life coach to guide you. or you can just diy.

the steps

1. brainstorm - in this step, we’re not being “realistic” (whatever that is). we’re “fishing” ala David Lynch or “remembering” ala Varg Vikernes. for example, i dream of being the leader of library town in the Mad Max apocalypse. There is no library town in Mad Max. There is no Mad Max apocalypse. It doesn’t matter: we’re not being realistic.

2. get real - now you try to get as close as you can in the real world. using the example above, i could get a job in a library, practice leadership skills, and do “prepping” things like learning to shoot, fix broken things, get food without grocery stores, endure hardship.

living the dream

up until the post-modern era, the meaning of life was given to us by our culture. religion, tribe, nation, etc. now all that has been stripped away and we live in a world devoid of all meaning. we do stupid ass “searches for meaning” as if it could possibly be done independently. this isn’t sad, though, it’s awesome. the world devoid of meaning gives us the ultimate freedom. we can set our goals ourselves, autonomously. there are no gods to judge us. there are no overarching standards worth a second thought. no morality. we can make it up ourselves by just feeling our feelings.

reading recommendations

• Mike Ma has two books out: “Harassment Architecture” and “Gothic Violence”. There are also audiobooks on YouTube. These books are so juicy and delicious and will get you excited about accelerationism.
• “Industrial Society and its Future” by Theodore Kaczynski. Also free to download off the internet. This book is as comforting to me as the bible is to christians.

i forgot

when i started writing this post, i had a really good point i wanted to make. then i started writing stuff and totally forgot where i was going. i can’t remember it. it’s lost for now. if i remember it i’ll write a new post. whatever, fuck you.