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“More than any other force, it has been the spread of global capitalism that has disassembled traditional networks of care and connection, replacing them with precarious work, financialisation and the relentless mantra of individualism. The bitter irony is that the capitalist system responsible for this social unravelling is now profiting from the loneliness it helped to create. The loneliness economy - from social media to dating apps, mental health apps and AI companions - has sprung up to sell back to us the sense of connection we so deeply crave.”
― Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships
― Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships
“Because no single event takes down a relationship. Negative communication cycles, on the other hand, absolutely do.”
― Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
― Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
“And then comes the reassembled self, the self you have to put back together. You no longer have to devote time to finding out what you are, you are just free to be whatever you want to be, unimpeded by the incessant needs of others. You somehow grow into the fullness of your humanity, form your own character, become a proper person – I don’t know, someone who has become a part of things, not someone separated from or at odds with the world. You mean you get old. Yes, Seán, old and free!”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”
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“For me, vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth, whereas being invulnerable means being shut down, rigid, small. My experience of creating music and writing songs is finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You’re being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. There’s certainly a vulnerability to that, and an incredible freedom. […] I think to be truly vulnerable is to exist adjacent to collapse or obliteration. In that place we can feel extraordinarily alive and receptive to all sorts of things, creatively and spiritually. It can be perversely a point of advantage, not disadvantage as one might think. It is a nuanced place that feels both dangerous and teeming with potential. It is the place where the big shifts can happen. The more time you spend there, the less worried you become of how you will be perceived or judged, and that is ultimately where the freedom is.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
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