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“Certain relationships can just wear you down. So you mirror or reflect back- kind of like a pet, reflecting back what its master wants. This can seem easier in the moment: Whatever it takes to back this person's vibe down. The master does not have to be male. Sometimes he is, but not always. Whoever the master is, they know this, that people can be trained. Either with praise, shame, the fear of failure, or the fear of being gaslighted, the technique is a relationship of rewards and punishments. There is no unconditional love here. No, this kind of relationship is all about the master's conditions. Not joint respectful mutual conditions, but their conditions.”

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Book:Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

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Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

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Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her distinctive piano-driven sound and introspective lyrics. She has released numerous albums and has won multiple awards, including a Grammy. Her music often delves into themes of personal relationships and emotional vulnerability. more

“However, there are other, more political forms for these tendencies hostile to Western models. All of these countries that we want to acculturate by force with the principles of political and economic rationality, with the global market and democracy, with a universal principle and a history that is not their own, of which they have neither the ends nor the means - all of these countries which make up the rest of the world - they give us the impression (in Brazil for example) that they will never be accultured to this exogenous model of calculation and growth, that they are deeply allergic to it. And in fact do we, Westerners, masters of the world, still have its ends and means? Do we still measure up to this universal undertaking of mastery that now seems to surpass us in every domain and function like a trap of which we are the first victims?”

Failure Brazil Decadence Simulation

Book:The Agony of Power

Source: The Agony of Power

“Everything is fascinating. It’s fascinating that online Illuminism has so often attracted the wrong kind of people, and it’s fascinating to work out how to rectify the problem and find the right audience. Being fascinated by every problem and determined to overcome each one is the key to progress. Failing better is the dialectic in action. To adopt Nietzsche’s outlook, the greater the challenge, the greater the glory. The greater the resistance, the greater the will required to triumph over it. Frankly, our whole game is to find those people willing to accept the toughest challenges. For are those not the gods? And if people run away from the fight because it’s too daunting for them, then it’s no loss. They have simply proved they weren’t fit for purpose.”

Success Challenges Failure Overcoming Adversity Reward Illuminism

Book:Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe

Source: Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe

“The tragedy is not failure but lack of faith.”

Wisdom Faith Failure Tragedy Of Life

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Rocking the boat is the most un/anti-American trait one could bring to the table! Disturbing or challenging the status quo is disloyal. In this sense, ironically, success in most American workplaces often results in (or is at the expense of) human and intellectual failure.”