André Duqum

Hey, fam, a quick share.

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Back to the show.

I love Jung's phrasing of how pleasure is tension reduction.

It makes me think about how that is very much in essence what we're doing.

In all of those moments where we feel some sort of unease within ourselves and we cope, you know, it's providing us some sort of solace moment to moment.

In your book, I heard, I saw you refer to Emerson and his, you know, as his writing son.

My favorite philosopher.

on self-reliance and cultivating this rebellious spirit towards a culture and society that profits off of the vampirification of your attention and your energy.

And so I'm curious your thoughts on that, because I feel like it really does take a, you know, going against the grain when the grain, the culture is every second of every day of every moment is taking your attention towards this social machine.