Limit your ratio of meta to reality

Hey kids, let's go outside already

There’s reality and there’s meta. Reality is visceral, concrete experience. Motion and action. Sensation and meaning. The universe.

Oddly, we mortals experience reality mostly as thought. As I’ve noted elsewhere:

Thought is a reaction to stimuli in the world: a fragrance, an overheard sentence, a prolonged glimpse at the app you are presently doom scroll…