{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Where are you right now on the depressed(0) to manic(10) scale? 7?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/185833173718/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Where are you right now on the depressed(0) to manic(10) scale? 7?</p></div>\n<p>I dunno, I <b>am</b> a little happy, confident, stimulated, and underslept and it manifests as a greater fluidity of pressured speech and ability to craft multi-layered self-referentiality</p><p>But I&rsquo;m not sure whether to put that under a mood swing rubric cause they all have identifiable external causes</p><p>Like, im underslept cause on the road my natural cycle conflicts with &ldquo;checkout at 11&rdquo; and I&rsquo;m stimulated cause I compensate with caffeine</p><p>If I&rsquo;m confident it&rsquo;s because I&rsquo;ve seen a lot of things that seem to indicate that things out in the country are growing the way I wanted and predicted, to the point where I&rsquo;m now concerned for overkill; I&rsquo;m also seeing a lot of stuff that inspires new ideas.</p><p>I&rsquo;m happy cause I&rsquo;m on goddamn vacation, it&rsquo;s been going great, I commune with America and took a break to go to basically the event I wanted to for 20 years and had totally stopped thinking could ever happen; one based on a genre and aesthetic specifically crafted to mimic the serotonin rush of MDMA. Like, it&rsquo;ll do that.</p>"}