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So glad this post directed me to Less Mad. I'll pay when I can. I lived through my partner's psychosis. It's hard for me to imagine the way you went about working through your experience intellectually and it looks to be immensely useful for understanding our predicament. I'm so grateful you were in a place that you could do that work while in it. My first click over there was "Rituals of Change as Used on You". I have pretty shallow engagement w McLuhan but I do get the picture in kind of fuzzy. I graduated dartmouth in 2007 w lit theory friends so I come by it honest, but since went into always quite physically grounded work, especially since I moved back to KY-- farm, handyman biz, now yes organizing team and comms work, but also building a slaughterhouse. The idea of grounding the bulk of the current world a la "I am walking across the surface of this planet with you other humans amidst a tangle of metal and wires" by diving into 'the stack' and then to realize that the disjunctions in the stack are the source of the ungrounding that is postmodernism. This is genius. My kids are 13 and almost 15. There eyes are directed exactly where someone wants them and I do not have equal redirect power. The eye-directors are just so relentless and well resourced. Rituals of Change Used on Us. Planning to devote some of the precious hours to your blog for sure. I'd read you guest-posted here before but somehow didn't make it to LessMad. Anyway THANKS

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Marcel H's avatar

Awesome piece!

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