It is Friday and I am tired, which is to be expected after a manic start to the week. idk.
Maybe that’s really the only difference between a manic alex and a normal/sad alex - how often i use phrases like 'idk' and 'maybe.'
indicators of doubt
—an okay band name
an okay band name
—also an okay band name
perception vs.
I am saying, I think, idk, maybe, that the difference between manic me and sad me is simply two different perceptions of the same base reality. If true, sadness is maybe just having a more sad perception of similar events?
Though isn't the perception itself the event? What's more real - what 'happens' out there or how we perceive it? And does the first thing even exist without the second?
If a tree farts in the forest and there is no one to go 'hey, did that tree just fart,' then did that tree ever fart at all?
Of course it did because there would always be other trees to hear it.
"did you fart" the second tree would ask.
"No."
"I heard you."
"Nope. there's no humans around so, no, I didn't."
"There goes Marty with his freshman year philosophy 101 bullshit again.”
“Shut up.”
“grow up.”
“I AM.”
My conversation with
Unlike most of the idiots on Substack,
is a renaissance woman - she writes here on Substack, she is a musician of acclaim and talent, AND she has a popular podcast called Binchtopia:If Plato and Aristotle had internet addictions and knew what "gaslighting" was, they'd probably make this podcast. Hosts Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb guide you through our current cultural hellscape, share sociological and psychological perspectives on pop culture, and deconstruct everything you've ever loved. Come have a laugh with us through the end times of late stage capitalism!
Wow! Here’s her music:
Here’s her Substack:
And here - above, I think, is our entire conversation!!
A summary of our conversation
I fed the transcript into Claude and asked it to give me shownotes in the style of a caveman and I gotta say, great job!
ELIZA IN CAVE. ALEX IN DIFFERENT CAVE. TALK GOOD.
LA PLACE MAKE BRAIN THINK ONLY ELIZA EXIST. BAD!
PEOPLE SAY MEAN THING ONLINE. ELIZA LOOK AT MEAN THING. WHY LOOK? BECAUSE LIKE PAIN! OOH!
MOVE AWAY FROM BIG SUN PLACE. FIND REAL PEOPLE AGAIN. GOOD!
THERAPY MAN LIKE OLD TRIBE SHAMAN. TALK MAKE FEEL BETTER.
MAKE WEIRD ART GOOD! SAME ART BORING!
BUILD IKEA TOGETHER. SHOW TRUE MATE STRENGTH. SURVIVE OR DIE!
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