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_allyourbass_

27 / M / Straight / Available

Berkeley, California

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The Letter From Utopia

Nov 20, 2009

Your brain’s special faculties: music, humor, spirituality, mathematics, eroticism, art, nurturing, narration, gossip! These are fine spirits to pour into the cup of life. Blessed you are if you have a vintage bottle of any of these. Better yet, a cask! Better yet, a vineyard!

Be not afraid to grow. The mind’s cellars have no ceilings!

What other capacities are possible? Imagine a world with all the music dried up: what poverty, what loss. Give your thanks, not to the lyre, but to your ears for the music. And ask yourself, what other harmonies are there in the air, that you lack the ears to hear? What vaults of value are you witlessly debarred from, lacking the key sensibility?

Had you but an inkling, your nails would be clawing at the padlock.


--Nick Bostrom, Letter From Utopia

Your brain’s special faculties: music, humor, spirituality,mathematics, eroticism, art, nurturing, narration, gossip! Theseare fine spirits to pour into the cup of life. Blessed you are ifyou have a vintage bottle of any of these. Better yet, a cask!Better yet, a vineyard!

Be not afraid to grow. The mind’s cellars have no ceilings!

What other capacities are possible? Imagine a world with all themusic dried up: what poverty, what loss. Give your thanks, not tothe lyre, but to your ears for the music. And ask yourself, whatother harmonies are there in the air, that you lack the ears tohear? What vaults of value are you witlessly debarred from, lackingthe key sensibility?

Had you but an inkling, your nails would be clawing at thepadlock.


--Nick Bostrom, Letter From Utopia

The Letter From Utopia