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by bshepard 4y ago
From the Book of Disquiet: "I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compell
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by bshepard 4y ago
Questionable title: if you consider the impact of economic growth/specialization on human freedom - from exceedingly unfree agricultural and domestic work towards much freer (but still, of course, not wholly free) forms of symbolic lab
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Institutional Performance (Art) Can Save the BioöKonomie(thoughtjewels.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Of all places, hacker news might be the optimal space to find others interested in the radicalization of wokeness; that is, pushing past 'spoke woke's use of essential identities and alliance with the carcereal state-NGO complex..
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How woke wakes up(thoughtjewels.substack.com)
3 points by bshepard 4y ago|3 comments
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Optimal Timeline Ye(thoughtjewels.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
it seems worthwhile to note Graeber's extremely loose relationship with aspects of reality that didn't fit his very narrow political stance -- said post if about another book, but it's likely that the bullshit jobs work has s
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by bshepard 4y ago
The American government dropped a science fiction bomb on two Japanese cities, invaded, and then dictated the rules of the Japanese state. They continue to have military bases on Japanese soil. Arrogant paternalism?
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by bshepard 4y ago
The most immediately effective thing parents (or anyone) could do for longevity is begin to see the ground of being itself as divine, and then join a religious community of other people who see the divine life in a similar sort of way. Peo
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by bshepard 4y ago
I also find New York City to be extremely depressing, and radically subpar urbanistically compared with Berlin, where I currently live. You can take an S-Bahn in 30 minutes or so to S-Bahn Schlachtensee and swim clean, chill and easily acce
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by bshepard 4y ago
I'm outraged at how accurate this is. Why do we have to live in a world where corporations becoming sovereign is a relatively happy option! Give me my money back.
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Introducing: Google Passport (Analytical Fiction)(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by bshepard 4y ago|2 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
We are writing this in the sanest and calmest periods in our adult lives. Both authors are married and live conventional-ish life patterns; the attribution of personal mental illness to creative writers, though, is a good example of the vic
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by bshepard 4y ago
Yes, it may be this easy. The question of block grants is good, and we will respond soon with an epic of block grants.
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Four Nullifications and a Divorce(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|4 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Abstractly, you're right, but in the concrete instance of the united states, there's an oligarchy that currently (mis)rules the country, and if you want to replace an oligarchy, bottom-up/discoordinated efforts probably won&#
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Kenny Shopsin Soup Theory Explains America’s Next Democratic Monarch(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|2 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
This is a great comment, thank you.
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Goat Kyiv(deepsocks.substack.com)
3 points by bshepard 4y ago|1 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Out of curiosity, who reading this believes that the ground of reality itself is sentient? You don't have to call this basic sentience "God" but this is generally what the better theologians identified as God, the all: the al
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A Deep and Sweet Way to End America’s Cold Civil War(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|2 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Yes, Joe had a lot to do with his son's actions. Joe's position in power enabled his son to sell connections. You can deny this, if you want, anything can be denied, but the on-the-ground evidence seems quite secure. If only they
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The Hero in the Age of Secondary Orality(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
It is important to stress that China was ruled, at the time, by a government that was widely seen as "Nonchinese" -- this sense of external rule surely had a great deal to do with the emergence of mass addiction, as the Ching stat
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by bshepard 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that the Ching government had already launched an opium war before the British began their narcopolitics. This is from P.E Caquet's "Opium's Orphans" “n the leafy town of Taiyu, Shanxi, an in
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Anime: Picture for Proof(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Perhaps there are virtues to weak law enforcement that are difficult to see, and perhaps instead of trying to make financial crimes more like (say) drug crimes, it would be wiser to make drug crimes more like financial crimes.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Primarily a commercial context, think about how much click money that a 5 dimensional political compass could make. We're talking maybe hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong here!
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by bshepard 4y ago
It might be possible to create a representation of 5 dimensional grid which can model a specific political moment. It may also be desire-able too.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Here is a juicy nugget: But who will be the new FDR? One name that Yarvin continues to mention (albeit half-seriously) is Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. One of the Red Scare hosts insisted that Ye, as a “man with bipolar disor

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