First Coffee Thoughts

First Coffee Thoughts (previously under “Musings” and “CoSo”) are blog versions of my #FirstCoffeeThoughts multi-thread posts on CounterSocial. These are here for posterity and also to make them easier for people to read at a later time should they wish to.

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Finally Out Of Energy …

It has been difficult and absolutely nightmarish trying to navigate the world while 99% of the population exists in their own small, self contained and limited simulations.

Control Is Key

No matter how strong you are in your logic, your reason, your regulation, you are ALONE in it. No one around you has what you have. Not 99% of the world.

On Clavicular

Why don't you sit and think about all of the elements of society that brought us to where we are right now and then think about where lack of empathy, understanding, and sympathy has gotten us.

Your Abusers Are Winning

Demanding that the most vulnerable sacrifice themselves to inconvenience the most insulated and powerful is not strategy ... it’s madness.

Balance Is Coming

Men. White people. Mundanes. Monsters ... will all fade away. The world will enter a golden age guided by those who were once outcast, pushed down, mislabeled, mistreated, misunderstood, unappreciated, and underestimated.

The Deeper The Bow …

Apologies are agreed upon and all about gesturing. When the depth of the bow indicates the depth of the apology, that's called theater, not truth.

People Need Media Therapy

When I created the psychological modality of Media Therapy in the 90s, it was born out of a desire to really understand how people could watch artistic mediums so differently and the different aspects of psychological and emotional development (or lack there of) that figure into how media is interpreted uniquely.

Masked Legacy

My father did a lot of good. Too much to just ignore or let disappear because of his generation's trauma, silence, or my singular opinion about one of his masks.

99.9% Excuses

There is no excuse for dysregulated emotions and choosing anger and hatred over logic, empathy, and reason. Stop making excuses and do the work.

Not Everything Is For You

Having a non-existent education and no grasp of history, culture, or cinema is not always going to be enough to really enjoy some films to their fullest.