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Connor Jennings's avatar

So brave ✨

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yan castaldo's avatar

Hell yeah

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Rafael Ruiz's avatar

✨ nice ✨✨✨

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Beepy's avatar

this piece has to be the most self-obsessed, inane, milquetoast, low-calorie dreck that i’ve ever read on the subject. very well done.

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Pete Mandik's avatar

sparkle shrimp ✨🦐✨

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Mason Kay's avatar

Wow, you don't even use upper case letters you hate 'hierarchy' so much. That's commendable. These people who rail against the evils of substack are morons. Do you drive a Ford car? A company founded by Nazi sympathizing Henry Ford? Are you wearing a shirt, or sneakers, most likely made in a sweatshop in Southeast Asia? Point is, you could walk around your house and find a million "evil" companies. Just retreating, and pompously declaring "I'm out" (I've seen so many of these posts lately) solves nothing. What will the end game be? A guy writing with an ink well and a feather by candle light in a room by himself, free of all negative influence?

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AnotherOther's avatar

Um yes that is clearly the ideal endgame what all roads have been leading to since Rome: freedom, free at last to be me just me all alone without anybody else CORRUPTING my purity of spirit of soul of crystal clear artistic vision -

And that multiplied by thousands upon thousands, an infinite number of absolute monads scribbling away in tiny little pods, finally alone, completely free to stare into the endless abyss of the Self as It stares back a recursive loop of I Me I: NO more external influence to distract from the Truth of emptiness no-thingness calling me pulling me back to it back to sleep and to dream anew, a new world again, all of it all over again

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Aashay Dwivedi's avatar

I noticed this a while back, used to love substack- now off of it. Can there be a rules based platform which can avoid this? If so, what would be the rules? I can build it.

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