this is what Heidegger meant about the ordinary person living almost unconsciously, unable and unwilling to act outside the structures of normality even in trivial ways, bound to "what one does" like a straightjacket of inauthentic conformity
simplest way to explain adhd is just like imagine the most boring thing you were ever forced to do and now imagine that like 80% of everything that's absolutely necessary for your survival and social respect is even worse than that
it's not even that kids need boundaries, people need boundaries and they have the right to tell people, including kids, to stop fucking with their stuff
I was a sniper for 28 years. Unaffiliated, indie marksman, used to work security for people who didn't even know it, random citizens I thought seemed nice. I'd map out their grocery routes and secure a corridor for them, unseen, unheard. To me this thing reeks of incompetence
once you reach a certain age and maturity you realize that there's really no wealth that can compare to the deep, lasting, ineffable joy of a life full of drawbored chamfered diagonal timber braces
