Set the toggle to zero. Okay better.

You can choose to just believe the future will be better than the present or the past; there is ample evidence to suggest this. Just as there is ample evidence for the former.

When you become optimistic you’ll find what happens is that the world continues to improve around you

It’s possible to genuinely experience this as true and when you do there’s a powerful flywheel effect to it. Same with paranoia in the opposite direction.

Some people believe they are cursed/unlucky and it plays out as true. Some people believe they are lucky/have divine protection.

for context I’m currently working at a massive bank so make of that what you will

I’m not much of a hippy but I’m happy to entertain notions of animism that present things and places as having an innate spirit.

It’s a useful heuristic and once you see/feel it it’s hard to unsee/unfeel it.

I walked into work yesterday and was immediately struck by how thick and heavy the air inside the building felt and how everything was designed in such a clinical way with straight lines and sharp edges. And how everyone’s body language felt so contained and anxious.

Huh, the idiosyncrasies of US culture make *much* more sense after reading that