Feeling Good and Being Good
Hey beautiful people,
I hope you had an amazing Monday. I chatted with one of the Stoa facilitators today: Tyson Wagner. We chatted about using freestyle rap to find communitas. You can watch our conversation here.
Tomorrow’s events:
Time Tweak w/ Ivo Mensch. May 19th @ 11:00 AM ET. 60 mins. RSVP here.
Journalism During the Liminal War w/ David Fuller. May 19th @ 1:00 PM ET. RSVP here.
***
May 18, 2020
I am listening to Garbage right now. I had the hots for Shirley Manson when I was a teenager. What a hot bitch. I have a soft spot, and a hard spot, for girls who have issues. Why is this? Is this my good guy game? A savior complex? The fantasy of me being that knight with armor that shines so handsomely? Sometimes I want to feel good more than I want to be good, and to be good requires you to be willing to die like a dog when no one is watching.
I dig chicks who are only happy when it rains, and I want to die when no one is watching. What is a virtuous man to do with this tension? Maybe I should reinvent love, and kill the old love stories once and for all. They are devious spells, that tell sexy lies with annoying alibis. They are cast not out of love, but from a place of unworthiness. And love spells only work, in the wrong way, on the unworthy; and this man feels worthy.
I am not going to get Plato on your ass, and suggest we ban all poets. No. Poetry is dope, even though I find most poetry pretentious. In creating a new world, we got to use the material we have in front of us. There is joy in the makeshift and there is an ugly beauty to being a normie punk. The daemon does not care for the dead status that provides reliable guarantees. No no no. The daemon wants love, not love stories, but sometimes you have to tell a bad story to discover the love that you feel undeserving of.
My new spiritual hype man, Ari Delashmutt, texted me this over the weekend: But for now, just a deep gratitude for you Peter. You’re a fucking G, and the sexiness that you’re bringing to virtue is what the world needs… your striptease is encouraging me to go the tantric route and enjoy every moment.
Yes! Let us enjoy every moment. A spiritual striptease is not something we rush, but it is not something done slowly either. We are in a meta-crisis after all. The spirit of festina lente is the right pace for the stripping and teasing. The Cancel God will not be ready for this. We will take him by surprise, and seduce him in the process. This would be some next level metagame if we pull this off.
Try not to make sense of the next words here, just feel them, and get turned on by them. It is time to be creative, and create. We need to be turned on if we are going to create a new world. Besides, you do not really want to fuck with a Stoic. That would be deeply unwise.
***
Gift Economy / The Stoa currently operates through a gift economy. We are offering the Stoa as a gift, for people to freely use during these troubled times. If you are inspired to provide a gift to The Stoa, email thestoa at protonmail dot com. Your gift can take the form of money, support, services or ideas. If you wish to gift money, you can do so here or here for ongoing gifts.