**Tariq K ✅** @tariqk · Apr 18, 2017, 00:59

**Tariq K ✅** @tariqk · Apr 18, 2017, 00:59

Tariq K ✅ @tariqk

Apr 18, 2017, 00:59

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is mocking your fragility transcending it, or merely a performative display to show the world how you've transcended your fragility

is broadcasting your thoughts to the void about your fragility you being thoughtful, or you performing thoughtfulness

are you even a real being or a series of performances

**catdad 💖** @tcql · 2017-04-18T01:09:17Z

catdad 💖 @tcql

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@tariqk lolol I've tried to express these thoughts before but then stopped myself, wondering if me expressing them was also a performance 🤦

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**✨Ben Hamill✨** @benhamill · Apr 18, 2017, 01:16

**✨Ben Hamill✨** @benhamill · Apr 18, 2017, 01:16

Apr 18, 2017, 01:16

✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill

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@tcql @tariqk Insomuch as you are what you do... there is no difference between performance and being. IDK how absolutely you should take that, but I don't think it had to be anxiety inducing if you frame it right. Like, hmm...

If what matters is the effect you have on the world, the people around you and not what's inside or your intentions... And if each act is sort of isolated in that you don't sort of score points for the future that

**✨Ben Hamill✨** @benhamill · Apr 18, 2017, 01:18

**✨Ben Hamill✨** @benhamill · Apr 18, 2017, 01:18

Apr 18, 2017, 01:18

✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill

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@tariqk @tcql lets you act one way before and later act a different way without consequence, then "performance" is just action. Which may have some effects.

On the one hand, being inconsistent (which is the real harm in performance, right?) is shitty but also deeply human. On the other hand, fake it til you make it.

Did any of that even make sense?

**Tariq K ✅** @tariqk · Apr 18, 2017, 01:39

**Tariq K ✅** @tariqk · Apr 18, 2017, 01:39

Apr 18, 2017, 01:39

Tariq K ✅ @tariqk

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@tcql ha! ha ha ha! ha ha ha ha ha!

(anxiety intensifies)