@"Snakes Alive" At the same time, I think the how and the why are pretty criss-crossed - isn't that Lazerowtiz's thing? A kind of wish-fulillment in w...
Yeah, I didn't want to suggest it was just a matter of emotion. I think the pull toward 'discovery' is also part of the same nebula of things I'm talk...
I haven't read much OLP (some Austin, basically, and that a while ago) but I've picked up some of the flavor of their thought, which has become more p...
I think there's like (1) the early guys, at wallstreet bets, who knew the whole structure of the thing (2) the hedgefunds (3) the late adopters. I thi...
Yeah, it's totally unambiguous. It's a tragedy she was so callously manipulated to get her to this point - and that the police outside slickened the s...
I'm not sure what your motives or intentions are. I don't think you're trolling, exactly, but I don't think you're not-trolling either. I think the th...
Right. Bitcoin, functionally, is a gold-type asset. It seems, more and more, like prudent, cautious, institutional money agrees with you: the economy ...
Very much so. My go-to is if someone tells you they have the answer, they don't. & If you think you have the answer, then you no longer do (if you eve...
I hear you man. Again, I am familiar with Zizek and Deleuze, and I follow what you're saying. But all those thoughts swarming around a central goal fe...
True, but any therapist worth their salt is going to be interested in helping their patient to pay attention to their condition. I think the particula...
My feeling is that, of the two things you mention, this 'void' is closer to absolute loneliness than death. But I think, at its essence, its an instin...
I sympathize with that. My base-state since ~13 years old has been anhedonia, punctuated by periods of emotional volatility. For me, also, that was th...
Yeah, & I feel like a sufficient account is something as simple as: sometimes people get hurt so bad that its too painful to focus on how hurt they ar...
Oh, I should probably clarify- I've read a good deal of Zizek & Deleuze over the past decade. I was really into both of them, and into trying to synth...
Oh, I know that Lacan would disagree with what I'm saying & I'm saying further that I think he's just empirically wrong, at least when his model is ap...
Deleuze & Guattari have all sorts of useful stuff, much of which I love, but they also have a self-consciously radical tone, which, as in a manifesto,...
Even before the birth of the rational-self, everyone has an instinctive sense of how their presence changes the vibe of a room, or an intuitive unders...
It's a knock-down argument if Lacan is taken literally, but (And I have to be honest and say I don't know him inside and out, only mostly through Zize...
I see what you're saying, but what do these theoretical models and terms add here. How does it enrich? The infant has a relationship with its mom. It'...
A simple, but useful metaphor. If you don't toss your ring in Mount Doom (If you can't bring yourself to offer a meaningful sacrifice) then as the yea...
Hey, cool, glad you found & liked it. It does work as a quick, stand-alone little piece. Right, this is the thing. For me, the temperature changes not...
I think we might be close to the same page. I added a bunch of edits above just as you were posting. Sloterdijk is interesting in this way: he doesn't...
The idea is something like this: It's only from a paranoid ego's perspective that everything of itself outside its imaginary identification is just un...
Oh yeah, I agree that Lacan would allow it. & Sloterdijk would agree. It makes sense Lacan would grant that; the quote wouldn't make sense if you supp...
Yeah, I get the apex predator thing. Maybe a better analogy would be a fortress + good logistics + divine armor + divine weapons. The Iliad complex: a...
I disagree with you - it is building fortresses; if we're talking cards: I call your bluff. That said, I have no interest in tangling with you outside...
I'm not sure. I think there's a thing of panpsychism=new age = intellecutaly-limp. There has to be a distance from the hippies, for sure. As I post, I...
I'm a panpsychist because I think it's the most economical solution to a lot of thorny problems. But presumably I'm also in some ways a 'case' illustr...
Thanks! I'm excited for the gains but trying my best not to too closely follow the change in valuation (reasoning that if I get too excited about the ...
I suppose there's two ways to look at that graph. One is a (fair) assessment ala: 'here we go again.' The other is that if you were a long term holder...
In in July, good lord. A hearty -and envy-tinged - congratulations. Agree very much with all of what you've said (& am going to take you up on that PM...
I'm in, money wise, and almost an ideological convert, I think. After reading about reserve currency cycles (& with corresponding concern about the sh...
A breeze like the turning of a page Brings back your face: the moment Takes such a big bite out of the haze Of pleasant intuition it comes after. The ...
The shadow of the city injects its own Urgency: Rome where Francesco Was at work during the Sack: his inventions Amazed the soldiers who burst in on h...
As I start to forget it It presents its stereotype again But it is an unfamiliar stereotype, the face Riding at anchor, issued from hazards, soon To a...
Tomorrow is easy, but today is uncharted, Desolate, reluctant as any landscape To yield what are laws of perspective After all only to the painter's d...
The balloon pops, the attention Turns dully away. Clouds In the puddle stir up into sawtoothed fragments. I think of the friends Who came to see me, o...
Alright, done. The problem with utopia, Fukuyma says, (jk, there's no way to actually know what fukuyama said) is that those with the right model of t...
Wait, what? If you've read The End of History, you'd know instantly I was talking about a key part of that book. Did you just google "fukuyama+thymos"...
You've tossed around Fukuyama recently - have you actually read his book? I've long had a general suspicion about some of your references... If you ha...
@"apokrisis" Let’s get into some of the thornier stuff. What do you think of Fukuyama’s treatment of ‘thymos’ as the inevitable bone in the throat of ...
Yes, I know that’s what you’ve been saying! I have a good sense of your view, and, having a good sense of it in all its dimensions, it does not surpri...
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