I was playing Celeste on Switch, and when Celeste met her other self, she says something like, "You look so creepy," and her other self replies, "This is just what I look like, Okay? Deal with it."
I find it empowering to think about reality in this way. Every adjective we use reflects our perspective, our reality. And only when the perspectives of many people converge on certain adjectives do they become part of our collective reality.
I am reading The Creative Gene by Hideo Kojima, and in his interview with Gen Hoshino, he explains how he wanted players to be able to create connections with one another. In Death Stranding players can leave …
I’m reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell, and she mentions the German philosopher Martin Buber and his book I and Thou. For Buber, there are two ways of looking at the world: I–It In the I–It way of looking, I …
I am reading Alone with Others by Stephen Batchelor. The first chapter of the book is about having and being, and this paragraph stood out to me: It is symptomatic of our having-oriented culture that the most …
