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  1. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  2. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  3. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  4. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  5. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  6. ✮ Anatomy of Brokenness ✮

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    Subscribe #AbstractFreeVerse #AbstractLiteraryArt #Absurd #AlienationAndDespair #AnatomyOfBrokenness #AnatomyOfGrief #ArtAndSuffering #Authors #Beauty #Bitter #BleakAesthetics #Blunt #Body #books #BrokenSoulImagery #Brokenness #Clock #ContemporaryFreeVerse #ContemporaryGothicLiterature #ContemporaryLiteraryPoetry #Contingent #CosmicIndifference #CosmicLoneliness #CreativeDespair #Crown #Cut #DarkExistentialism #DarkPoetry #DarkSymbolism #DeathOfMeaning #DecayAndMortality #DeepEmotionalWriting #DepressionAndIsolation #DespairInModernPoetry #Disenchanted #DisenchantedWorldview #Doom #EmotionalCollapse #EmotionalDecay #EmotionalDespair #EmotionalNumbness #Erwinism #ExistentialCrisis #ExistentialPoetry #ExistentialReflection #Fields #Fingers #FYP #GothicPoetry #GrayThings #History #HopelessnessInPoetry #HumanFragility #HumanSuffering #Illusions #Incision #Infinity #InnerDarkness #Inspiration #Lake #Life #Light #LiteraryDarkness #LiteraryExistentialism #LiteraryIntrospection #LiterarySymbolism #Literature #Love #Lovers #MeaningAndIllusion #MelancholicVerse #ModernLiteraryWriting #ModernPoeticVoice #Moon #Morning #MortalityAndTime #MortalityReflection #Mortals #Motivation #MurderOfCrows #Music #Night #NihilisticLiterature #Peaks #PhilosophicalMelancholy #PhilosophicalPoetry #PhilosophicalReflection #Philosophy #Poem #PoeticMeditation #PoeticNihilism #Poetry #PoetryOfIsolation #Possibilities #Promises #PsychologicalIsolation #PsychologicalPoetry #Purpose #ReflectivePoetry #Rest #Scalpel #Semantics #Sight #soul #Sparks #SpiritualEmptiness #SpiritualExhaustion #Stars #Stream #Sugar #Summer #Sun #SurrealImagery #SymbolicWriting #TheAbsurdityOfExistence #TheBurdenOfConsciousness #TheFailureOfBeauty #TheNatureOfEmptiness #TheSilenceOfTheUniverse #TheVoidAndMeaninglessness #TheWeightOfTime #Time #TimeAndMortality #TimeAsCruelty #Towers #Twitter #Unkind #Venerate #Voice #WindowlessRoom #WindowlessRoomSymbolism #Words #World
  7. REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS...
    ⏳️⌛️
    WHEN WAKING UP & THINKING...
    🤔
    ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE...
    🤗
    WAS A GOOD THING???
    😬
    GOOD TIMES.
    💡
    #JoeBiden
    #GoodVibes
    #Possibilities
    #DonaldTrump
    #BadVibes
    #POSSIBILITIES
    #WTAF
    #USA
    🙄

  8. Dear Lovely Peeps,

    THIS. This is me right now. It has been *quite* the weekend, and I am still trying to process everything, but it feels life has exploded, in a good way.

    I have so much hope right now. It's been quietly growing these past few months, but now a switch has been flipped.

    Don't get me wrong, it is going to be SO. MUCH. WORK. 😵 SO much blood, sweat, and especially tears. (I know this because having a wonky brain when trying to study hard concepts & you can't even *see* will do that. 🙄)

    But also, so, so, SO much joy. ✨

    This by #GrantSnider feels written for me right now. 🥰

    #Water #Grant_Snider #Possibilities

  9. Dear Lovely Peeps,

    THIS. This is me right now. It has been *quite* the weekend, and I am still trying to process everything, but it feels life has exploded, in a good way.

    I have so much hope right now. It's been quietly growing these past few months, but now a switch has been flipped.

    Don't get me wrong, it is going to be SO. MUCH. WORK. 😵 SO much blood, sweat, and especially tears. (I know this because having a wonky brain when trying to study hard concepts & you can't even *see* will do that. 🙄)

    But also, so, so, SO much joy. ✨

    This by #GrantSnider feels written for me right now. 🥰

    #Water #Grant_Snider #Possibilities

  10. Dear Lovely Peeps,

    THIS. This is me right now. It has been *quite* the weekend, and I am still trying to process everything, but it feels life has exploded, in a good way.

    I have so much hope right now. It's been quietly growing these past few months, but now a switch has been flipped.

    Don't get me wrong, it is going to be SO. MUCH. WORK. 😵 SO much blood, sweat, and especially tears. (I know this because having a wonky brain when trying to study hard concepts & you can't even *see* will do that. 🙄)

    But also, so, so, SO much joy. ✨

    This by #GrantSnider feels written for me right now. 🥰

    #Water #Grant_Snider #Possibilities

  11. Dear Lovely Peeps,

    THIS. This is me right now. It has been *quite* the weekend, and I am still trying to process everything, but it feels life has exploded, in a good way.

    I have so much hope right now. It's been quietly growing these past few months, but now a switch has been flipped.

    Don't get me wrong, it is going to be SO. MUCH. WORK. 😵 SO much blood, sweat, and especially tears. (I know this because having a wonky brain when trying to study hard concepts & you can't even *see* will do that. 🙄)

    But also, so, so, SO much joy. ✨

    This by #GrantSnider feels written for me right now. 🥰

    #Water #Grant_Snider #Possibilities

  12. Dear Lovely Peeps,

    THIS. This is me right now. It has been *quite* the weekend, and I am still trying to process everything, but it feels life has exploded, in a good way.

    I have so much hope right now. It's been quietly growing these past few months, but now a switch has been flipped.

    Don't get me wrong, it is going to be SO. MUCH. WORK. 😵 SO much blood, sweat, and especially tears. (I know this because having a wonky brain when trying to study hard concepts & you can't even *see* will do that. 🙄)

    But also, so, so, SO much joy. ✨

    This by #GrantSnider feels written for me right now. 🥰

    #Water #Grant_Snider #Possibilities

  13. Reading about the leaked Claude source code, I muttered:
    - pre-mature deployment of April 1st prank? 😜
    - strategy by AI to misdirect or lull competition? 🧠
    - nah, more likely just slop. AI writing its own code. 💩

    #Claude #AI #LLM #possibilities #slop

  14. Reading about the leaked Claude source code, I muttered:
    - pre-mature deployment of April 1st prank? 😜
    - strategy by AI to misdirect or lull competition? 🧠
    - nah, more likely just slop. AI writing its own code. 💩

    #Claude #AI #LLM #possibilities #slop

  15. Reading about the leaked Claude source code, I muttered:
    - pre-mature deployment of April 1st prank? 😜
    - strategy by AI to misdirect or lull competition? 🧠
    - nah, more likely just slop. AI writing its own code. 💩

  16. Reading about the leaked Claude source code, I muttered:
    - pre-mature deployment of April 1st prank? 😜
    - strategy by AI to misdirect or lull competition? 🧠
    - nah, more likely just slop. AI writing its own code. 💩

    #Claude #AI #LLM #possibilities #slop

  17. Reading about the leaked Claude source code, I muttered:
    - pre-mature deployment of April 1st prank? 😜
    - strategy by AI to misdirect or lull competition? 🧠
    - nah, more likely just slop. AI writing its own code. 💩

    #Claude #AI #LLM #possibilities #slop

  18. #Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)

  19. #Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)

  20. #Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)

  21. #Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)

  22. #Quotes #Oranges #Possibilities #AKRamanujan

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)

  23. "Stop managing 'what is'; start creating 'what could be.'" - Futurist Jim Carroll

    Here's a thought to start your Monday: the gap between "what is" and "what could be" is where the future is either won or lost.

    I've long seen this trap with leadership teams in many events I've done - organizations become so efficient at managing the current reality (aka the "what is") that they lose the capacity to create "what could be." They spend their energy defending last year's logic, perfecting declining business models, and negotiating terms for a world that no longer exists. They spend all their time on what was yesterday, instead of focusing on what could be tomorrow.

    And that's obviously just the wrong thing to do.

    If you want to move the needle, you have to stop managing all your realities and start chasing the possibilities. This requires a fundamental rethink in how you think things:

    From "What Is" to "What If": Stop looking at what mattered yesterday and focus on what will be critical tomorrow.

    From Administration to Agility: Always keep in mind my Master's in Business Imagination idea - we don't need more MBAs, we need MBIs! There are too many people 'administering' things, and not enough imagining them! While others are bogged down in analysis, the winners are moving quickly, decisively.

    From "Can't" to "Must": Make tomorrow real. Confronting the reality of where it will take you is the first step toward mastering. Absolutely refuse the "mutual delusion" of comfort and stagnation - and get uncomfortable, quickly!

    Don't let the weight of today’s challenges blind you to tomorrow’s potential.

    Always keep in mind the present is a fact, but the future is a choice.

    Burn this into your mind -> Stop managing "what is"; start creating "what could be."

    ---

    Futurist Jim Carroll believes you should read his MBI Manifesto today.

    MondayMotivation **#Leadership** **#Vision** **#Future** **#Possibilities** **#Creation** **#Innovation** **#Imagination** **#Agility** **#Mindset** **#Change** **#Strategy** **#WhatIf** **#Tomorrow** **#Potential** **#MBI** **#Action** **#Transformation** **#Thinking** **#Bold** **#Choice** **#Create** **#Growth** **#Leadership** **#Onwards**

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/02/decodin

  24. "Stop managing 'what is'; start creating 'what could be.'" - Futurist Jim Carroll

    Here's a thought to start your Monday: the gap between "what is" and "what could be" is where the future is either won or lost.

    I've long seen this trap with leadership teams in many events I've done - organizations become so efficient at managing the current reality (aka the "what is") that they lose the capacity to create "what could be." They spend their energy defending last year's logic, perfecting declining business models, and negotiating terms for a world that no longer exists. They spend all their time on what was yesterday, instead of focusing on what could be tomorrow.

    And that's obviously just the wrong thing to do.

    If you want to move the needle, you have to stop managing all your realities and start chasing the possibilities. This requires a fundamental rethink in how you think things:

    From "What Is" to "What If": Stop looking at what mattered yesterday and focus on what will be critical tomorrow.

    From Administration to Agility: Always keep in mind my Master's in Business Imagination idea - we don't need more MBAs, we need MBIs! There are too many people 'administering' things, and not enough imagining them! While others are bogged down in analysis, the winners are moving quickly, decisively.

    From "Can't" to "Must": Make tomorrow real. Confronting the reality of where it will take you is the first step toward mastering. Absolutely refuse the "mutual delusion" of comfort and stagnation - and get uncomfortable, quickly!

    Don't let the weight of today’s challenges blind you to tomorrow’s potential.

    Always keep in mind the present is a fact, but the future is a choice.

    Burn this into your mind -> Stop managing "what is"; start creating "what could be."

    ---

    Futurist Jim Carroll believes you should read his MBI Manifesto today.

    MondayMotivation **#Leadership** **#Vision** **#Future** **#Possibilities** **#Creation** **#Innovation** **#Imagination** **#Agility** **#Mindset** **#Change** **#Strategy** **#WhatIf** **#Tomorrow** **#Potential** **#MBI** **#Action** **#Transformation** **#Thinking** **#Bold** **#Choice** **#Create** **#Growth** **#Leadership** **#Onwards**

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/02/decodin

  25. "Stop managing 'what is'; start creating 'what could be.'" - Futurist Jim Carroll

    Here's a thought to start your Monday: the gap between "what is" and "what could be" is where the future is either won or lost.

    I've long seen this trap with leadership teams in many events I've done - organizations become so efficient at managing the current reality (aka the "what is") that they lose the capacity to create "what could be." They spend their energy defending last year's logic, perfecting declining business models, and negotiating terms for a world that no longer exists. They spend all their time on what was yesterday, instead of focusing on what could be tomorrow.

    And that's obviously just the wrong thing to do.

    If you want to move the needle, you have to stop managing all your realities and start chasing the possibilities. This requires a fundamental rethink in how you think things:

    From "What Is" to "What If": Stop looking at what mattered yesterday and focus on what will be critical tomorrow.

    From Administration to Agility: Always keep in mind my Master's in Business Imagination idea - we don't need more MBAs, we need MBIs! There are too many people 'administering' things, and not enough imagining them! While others are bogged down in analysis, the winners are moving quickly, decisively.

    From "Can't" to "Must": Make tomorrow real. Confronting the reality of where it will take you is the first step toward mastering. Absolutely refuse the "mutual delusion" of comfort and stagnation - and get uncomfortable, quickly!

    Don't let the weight of today’s challenges blind you to tomorrow’s potential.

    Always keep in mind the present is a fact, but the future is a choice.

    Burn this into your mind -> Stop managing "what is"; start creating "what could be."

    ---

    Futurist Jim Carroll believes you should read his MBI Manifesto today.

    MondayMotivation **#Leadership** **#Vision** **#Future** **#Possibilities** **#Creation** **#Innovation** **#Imagination** **#Agility** **#Mindset** **#Change** **#Strategy** **#WhatIf** **#Tomorrow** **#Potential** **#MBI** **#Action** **#Transformation** **#Thinking** **#Bold** **#Choice** **#Create** **#Growth** **#Leadership** **#Onwards**

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/02/decodin

  26. "Stop managing 'what is'; start creating 'what could be.'" - Futurist Jim Carroll

    Here's a thought to start your Monday: the gap between "what is" and "what could be" is where the future is either won or lost.

    I've long seen this trap with leadership teams in many events I've done - organizations become so efficient at managing the current reality (aka the "what is") that they lose the capacity to create "what could be." They spend their energy defending last year's logic, perfecting declining business models, and negotiating terms for a world that no longer exists. They spend all their time on what was yesterday, instead of focusing on what could be tomorrow.

    And that's obviously just the wrong thing to do.

    If you want to move the needle, you have to stop managing all your realities and start chasing the possibilities. This requires a fundamental rethink in how you think things:

    From "What Is" to "What If": Stop looking at what mattered yesterday and focus on what will be critical tomorrow.

    From Administration to Agility: Always keep in mind my Master's in Business Imagination idea - we don't need more MBAs, we need MBIs! There are too many people 'administering' things, and not enough imagining them! While others are bogged down in analysis, the winners are moving quickly, decisively.

    From "Can't" to "Must": Make tomorrow real. Confronting the reality of where it will take you is the first step toward mastering. Absolutely refuse the "mutual delusion" of comfort and stagnation - and get uncomfortable, quickly!

    Don't let the weight of today’s challenges blind you to tomorrow’s potential.

    Always keep in mind the present is a fact, but the future is a choice.

    Burn this into your mind -> Stop managing "what is"; start creating "what could be."

    ---

    Futurist Jim Carroll believes you should read his MBI Manifesto today.

    MondayMotivation **#Leadership** **#Vision** **#Future** **#Possibilities** **#Creation** **#Innovation** **#Imagination** **#Agility** **#Mindset** **#Change** **#Strategy** **#WhatIf** **#Tomorrow** **#Potential** **#MBI** **#Action** **#Transformation** **#Thinking** **#Bold** **#Choice** **#Create** **#Growth** **#Leadership** **#Onwards**

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/02/decodin

  27. "Stop managing 'what is'; start creating 'what could be.'" - Futurist Jim Carroll

    Here's a thought to start your Monday: the gap between "what is" and "what could be" is where the future is either won or lost.

    I've long seen this trap with leadership teams in many events I've done - organizations become so efficient at managing the current reality (aka the "what is") that they lose the capacity to create "what could be." They spend their energy defending last year's logic, perfecting declining business models, and negotiating terms for a world that no longer exists. They spend all their time on what was yesterday, instead of focusing on what could be tomorrow.

    And that's obviously just the wrong thing to do.

    If you want to move the needle, you have to stop managing all your realities and start chasing the possibilities. This requires a fundamental rethink in how you think things:

    From "What Is" to "What If": Stop looking at what mattered yesterday and focus on what will be critical tomorrow.

    From Administration to Agility: Always keep in mind my Master's in Business Imagination idea - we don't need more MBAs, we need MBIs! There are too many people 'administering' things, and not enough imagining them! While others are bogged down in analysis, the winners are moving quickly, decisively.

    From "Can't" to "Must": Make tomorrow real. Confronting the reality of where it will take you is the first step toward mastering. Absolutely refuse the "mutual delusion" of comfort and stagnation - and get uncomfortable, quickly!

    Don't let the weight of today’s challenges blind you to tomorrow’s potential.

    Always keep in mind the present is a fact, but the future is a choice.

    Burn this into your mind -> Stop managing "what is"; start creating "what could be."

    ---

    Futurist Jim Carroll believes you should read his MBI Manifesto today.

    MondayMotivation **#Leadership** **#Vision** **#Future** **#Possibilities** **#Creation** **#Innovation** **#Imagination** **#Agility** **#Mindset** **#Change** **#Strategy** **#WhatIf** **#Tomorrow** **#Potential** **#MBI** **#Action** **#Transformation** **#Thinking** **#Bold** **#Choice** **#Create** **#Growth** **#Leadership** **#Onwards**

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2026/02/decodin

  28. With the last US-Russia nuclear pact now expired, new possibilities emerge

    Comment The two atomic powers should incorporate China in a novel arms-control framework U.S. President Donald Trump, right,…
    #Nuclear #emerge #expired #last #new #nuclear #PACT #possibilities #USrussia
    europesays.com/2797289/