Adventure
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I hope everyone is doing well.
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May 25, 2020
My body is exhausted at the moment. I was up until late and woke up early, so I could write these words, and these words feel adventurous. I want adventure, where the goals choose me, and where I encounter mysterious characters, with mysterious wisdom. I want an adventure where I risk my life, where something real is on the line. Where I fight the bad guys, and where I save all the damsels in distress, and experience romance.
I often hear I have a boyish enthusiasm about me. I like hearing that. Being boyish is different than being childish. The former is flirty and playful, and the latter is unattractive and entitled. I do not want to lose my boyishness, nor my enthusiasm, or adventurousness. The daemon is asking for a lot right now. He is pushing me to become a virtuous man, and he is telling me to go on this adventure.
A daemonic vision has emerged for The Stoa project, but I do not want to talk about that, at least not yet. It is going to be a lot of work, with a lot of sacrifice. Thanks to this pandemic, the adventure has started. Adventurous momentum is on my side, and there is a lot on the line. It does not feel like I have a choice here, and if I did have a choice it would be not to have one.
This adventure is calling me to be structured, and control my schedule more so I can be efficient, and get more done. Travis Mann, The Stoa’s spiritual project manager, is helping with this in a big way. Big love and gratitude to him. I can be hyper-organized myself, but I feel more alive when I can be wild, and I think this project needs me to be wild.
I prefer to be this wild spiritual entrepreneur, a Stoic hustling for a better world, horny all the time, flirting with everyone and everything. I feel deeply alive when I am flirting with everyone and everything, and when I am cowboying at the knife’s edge of crazy, and when I am being constantly bombarded with daemonic insights.
You do not want me to be a predictable bureaucrat. There is no fun in that, and I want us to have fun while we create a new world, and I want us to experience beauty while we do so. Reading Byung-Chul Han’s book Saving Beauty yesterday inspired me to tweet this: the revolution will be beautiful.
Why not? Yeah, let us be wisely efficient, and hustle our asses off, but why can’t our asses look beautiful during the hustle? My former therapist, and substitute father figure for a while, often signalled an intense work ethic, and encouraged everyone to have one as well. I deeply appreciate his message of hustling towards a better life, but I am no longer digging the shame-inducing boomer vibe that it is housed in. I do not want to admit this, but I desire to say ok boomer to Peterson.
Yes, people need to sacrifice their childishness, and I do not want to lose my boyish ways, or boyish good looks. We can make our bed, beautifully so, while having fun doing it as well. If we are going to win this liminal war, outfox the cult state—while solving the meta-crisis and awakening from the meaning crisis—and we have a choice to do it with some fun and beauty, then fuck it, let us do that.
There are a lot of beautiful people at The Stoa. It is cool. How did this happen? Why is The Stoa attracting so much beauty? Tyson, Raya, Raven, Daniel, A.J. and more. These people are delicious, externally and internally. Nicolas, The Stoa’s concept unfolder, who also happens to be ripped, invited me to work out with him in an hour via Zoom.
The sun is out here in Toronto, and it is time for the guns to come out as well. We will need some guns, loaded with beautiful ammo, in order to win this liminal war.
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