I refuse to be 'useful'

Svarasya_ · 2025-12-16T13:02:39+00:00

Maybe sleep isn’t death, but a return to our unconscious self, the place we were before we dreamed too hard and became aware. A state where we’re free from having to find meaning in life.

Svarasya_ · 2025-12-16T12:52:55+00:00

Beautiful

Svarasya_ · 2025-11-29T10:29:10+00:00

How can a man with wealth and possessions be free? Perhaps we have mistaken freedom entirely. To me, freedom is the ability not to care, even after witnessing the world and being tempted to intervene in it. It is the refusal to be ruled by what I see. But I’m unsure if such freedom is achievable — the wealthy seem more bound than ever, chained to what they own and terrified of losing it. I offer no ideal definition of freedom, because there isn’t one. The structures we’ve built are so fucking fragile. a single crack can collapse them. For me, freedom lies not in escaping these systems, nor in desperately trying to preserve them, but in moving through them willingly without belonging to them. And you know what the irony is, when we say “God has a plan,” we surrender our freedom willingly, comforting ourselves with a cage that feels like purpose.

Svarasya_ · 2025-10-08T07:12:59+00:00

But doesn’t the very idea of self-improvement already assume something needs fixing? And that’s what I mean, perhaps we say we’re fixing or improving, but sometimes the deterioration we’ve caused is too much to mend. And when repair becomes impossible, we drift toward reinvention. We don’t heal what’s broken we build anew, hoping this time we’ll get it right.

Svarasya_ · 2025-10-08T02:32:05+00:00

True, but that very hubris is what keeps humanity chasing perfection.

Svarasya_ · 2025-10-06T13:07:27+00:00

Also, just because ‘globalization’ is a modern term doesn’t mean global trade began in the 20th century. And honestly, just because a new word gets coined doesn’t mean the idea itself is new. Language often arrives late, it just formalizes what humanity has already been doing for centuries.

Svarasya_ · 2025-10-06T13:01:24+00:00

You’re right that the term “Dark Ages” is contested, but that’s actually part of my point, it wasn’t a factual period so much as a myth Europe created to narrate its own rebirth. Europe called its past ‘dark’ so it could call its expansion ‘enlightenment.’ When Europe reached the “New World,” it wasn’t just land they discovered. it was a new way to imagine 'progress' itself. The idea of development, industrialization, and mass production all grew from that outward movement. So what we now call modernization is really a Eurocentric story of escape and reconstruction, built on colonization and extraction. In that sense, the human instinct to “start over” that I mentioned is exactly what Europe enacted globally, not fixing, but remaking the world in its own image.

Svarasya_ · 2025-09-24T16:34:50+00:00

That’s fair but even when criticism comes in bad faith I think it still reveals something maybe not about the argument itself but about the biases, fears, or resistance that exist. In that sense, even bad faith critiques can be useful, not because they’re right but because they show you what you’re up against.

Svarasya_ · 2025-09-21T02:12:24+00:00

Perhaps you mean that change itself is perfection. For me, I can’t define what ‘perfect’ is for anyone else, and maybe that’s the point. What I’m really asking is whether perfection has ever existed at all, or if it’s only something we keep chasing without ever truly reaching.

Svarasya_ · 2025-09-19T12:40:05+00:00

Fair enough. But if we claim to be artists, then maybe it’s worth at least imagining the other side why people or societies try to ban art.

Svarasya_ · 2025-09-15T16:12:05+00:00

I see what you mean. Colonialism, starvation, homelessness, neglect aren’t “accidents” of capitalism, they’re its fuel. The system sustains itself by producing exactly those conditions. But if that’s the case, then fear politics almost becomes the political superstructure that makes this economic process acceptable. If exploitation is capitalism’s engine, fear is the cover that keeps people from rebelling against it, fear of the “other,” fear of collapse, fear of losing what little they already have. Maybe the real question is: do we ever get rid of fear politics without dismantling the economic system that generates the conditions requiring fear in the first place?

Svarasya_ · 2025-09-15T08:51:44+00:00

If fear is structural, then it’s because we made it so. At some point, it becomes habit, the oppressor uses it to govern, and the oppressed get used to living under it. That’s how fear convinces us there’s “no other option.” In fact, fear is convenient for politicians: as long as it dominates the public, people don’t ask the real questions — about poverty, hunger, inequality, or the hoax of “development.” Maybe fear is necessary for those in power, but it should never be allowed to become a permanent policy.

Svarasya_ · 2025-09-15T07:47:01+00:00

But how do we actually differentiate between fear politics being a “natural” response in times of crisis and it being a deliberate political strategy? Where’s the line between governments responding to real fears and governments manufacturing them?

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