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To be thinking is to be alive. Thinking feels like just being. We don’t know that silence and space can even exist between thoughts, that we can exist in the absence of thinking. Furthermore, we don’t know that thoughts can appear and we can choose to decline their invitation, decide not to engage in their content. We don’t know another way of living, other than thinking.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
Depression is the sickness of a society that suffers from excessive positivity. It reflects a humanity waging war on itself.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
But some of these concerns—not least, the dilemma of how to steer between the Scylla of vapid negativity and the Charybdis of vacuous cheerleading—become moot when you think back to the impulse that lies behind serious criticism: the impulse to analyze, to explain, to teach, to judge meaningfully.
A Critic’s Manifesto
newyorker.com
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