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themarginalian.org

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I'd always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.
— Fernando Pessoa

2w ago

stratechery.com

2026.22: Luceing Their Mind

electric cars are focused first and foremost on efficiency, and not only is that different than performance, Ferrari's calling card, but also representative of the parts of modern society — including tech — that leave everyone feeling increasingly alienated (and why, surprisingly, AI might help).

2mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and can no longer live without it. We cannot even imagine life without machines. Yet machines have enslaved us. They determine our movements and our thoughts.

2mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.

3mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

3mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is in the process of reinventing us.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.

3mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.

3mo ago

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