About

Astrosidian is my current Lifelong Learning creative befuddlement with Astro Modular, an Astro blog theme template designed for Obsidian users, created by David V. Kimball. This theme turns Obsidian into a powerful CMS for instant blog publishing.

A Draft Framework

If

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Closer to Zero

Creative Befuddlment is not negative self-talk, it’s The Truth about learning and the reason so many in the 20th century preferred denial of that fact, opting for the duck-n-shuffle avoidance of genuine accountability and responsibility with a kind of punch-the-clock, nine-to-five, just doing my Just Over Broke Justification Of Being JOB-JOB, man, typical 20th century semi-existence. A David Graeber worthy Zombie Apocolypse in the rear-veiw mirror. If it sounds depressing, it was the most powerful paradigm in history for driving depression drug sales to the moon. So may groypers far and wide be instantly aware that this is neither descriptive nor prescriptive of the earthly context of the first half of the twenty-first century. To wit, wailing and gnashing of teeth over, “what will people do for meaning, dignity, and purpose” in this 2025-2035 Third Millennium Post-Automation Era if Just Over Broke Justifications Of Being have become irrelevant!?

The most polite Derp-Duh-Der response is probably something akin to, *that was never true, dumb-dumb.” Dignity, Meaning, Purpose, and Value are intrinsic, Endowed By Our Creator, which even you yourself parrot, when it serves your purpose to perpetuate the Job Trance, “because that’s how grandpa and grandma always did things” when they lived in the jungle and cooked their neighbors in holes in the ground, as pastoral, peaceful, gentle, nature-loving indigenous people do. Enough of that clap-back. My bad.

If we are not to some degree in over our heads, confused, and therefore productively overthinking in order to figure things out, then we simply are not learning. This may further explain why the term overthinking became a favorite, cheap and easy poo-flinging monkey pejorative attempt to disable thoughtful deliberation and acute direct observation. “You overthink everything,” became a classic gaslight of the early 21st century.

Are we not living in the midst of the precise outcome of those entirely underthought, reactive, and impulse-driven experiments in the year 2025? Maybe not. Sure seems like it, though, when you hold it all up to the light.

Anyone can complain, but generating concrete, well-considered, rigorously stress-tested solutions – what to do about it – seems not so common.

By definition, to learn is to acknowledge and face our ignorance with some modicum of enthusiasm and faith in our ability to, at least, eventually, increment our ignorance closer to zero in one aspect or another, to some value greater than zero. It’s actually quite a low bar; which makes the general prevalence of an apparent lack of curiosity and learning for its own in the human population, all the more puzzling. So let’s favor the developer’s philosophy for this project, instead.

Developer’s Philosophy of Astro Modular [1]

Great content deserves great presentation without complexity. This blog theme is built on four core principles:

Clarity First

Content should be the star, not the design. Every element is carefully crafted to enhance readability and focus attention on what matters most - your ideas and writing.

Highly Performant

Fast loading times and smooth interactions are not optional. Every aspect of this theme has been optimized to deliver exceptional performance across all devices.

Works with Obsidian

If you use Obsidian, this theme is a natural extension of your workflow. All rich markdown and extended markdown features, including Wikilinks, callouts, and other embedded features, display seamlessly between your vault and published site.

Modular Design

Every feature can be toggled on or off through a single configuration file. Enable only what you need, keeping your site fast and focused on your specific use case.

Page Templates

• Contact page with a form
• Thank You page where submitters are directed after a successful submission
• Privacy Policy page

Judge Me

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Footnotes

1. SOURCE: David V. Kimball ↩