I really liked the article. Thanks for sharing!

Here's my alternate title: people are insane, software reveals it.

Insane feels too strong, though. I believe people make sense. We just have this crazy ability to fool ourselves by spinning stories. And many of the stories we continue to spin were handed to us without our awareness.

I've been carrying one of his poems around in my pocket recently. I'll leave it here for y'all. Maybe it'll find someone else as it found me when I needed it most:

> To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.

> To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,

> and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,

> and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my light, and let myself feel the enveloping darkness for a long time. I cried. The only sounds were of small droplets of cold water hitting the floor and my body. I let myself settle in to the sensation of being buried alone under the rock where liquid fire once reigned. I felt at peace. When I finally emerged from the cold tunnel a thrill ran through me as warm air gushed over my skin and the distant sun found me once again. I sat and fed the birds that visited me in the remote wilderness while I listened to the gentle whirl of wind in the trees.

> birds that visited me

are you a disney princess?

Why, are you looking for one?

Every sensible person is looking for a Disney princess.

I've found my Disney princess from within

This gave me a hearty laugh!

What happens if your flashlight craps out?

Depends on the complexity of the cave. If it's an acyclic graph and you only went upstream you will probably hurt your shins a lot but you will eventually make it to the exit. If it's not and you are far way from an exit without any information gradient, e.g. light or sound, then hopefully you did inform others of your solo trip in the cave.

Take two.

For caving you’re supposed to take three and keep them in separate areas of the bag so you can’t lose all three at the same time.

I used to take a buncha glow sticks and a "shakey" flashlight too (just in case).

That's when the fumble time starts

Jesus and Mohammed supposedly did this for 40 days. They figured it was where an outcast should die.

They got sent back. The "Celestial Mechanics" art was a similar era but instead of a new religion, that era was a Renaissance.

We're at a similar point in history where an industrial revolution quietly changed a way of life between living generations

Plenty of people been done climbed up that mountain and come back changed

Thanks for sharing

Good article! I agree that curiosity is a wonderful place to land.

However, I think putting anger and curiosity on two levels can be a subtle trap. It can lead to diminishing the importance of anger. They’re all just emotions; just appearances in our minds. We don’t decide when they show up, but we do have the capacity for awareness.

In my experience I’ve found anger to be an immensely important emotion. It signals to me that something very important needs attention. And when entire populations are angry, that’s a really important signal. Granted, following the first thought that follows the anger tends to be unhelpful (it’s easy to villainize). But the initial signaling of importance should not be underplayed.