My understanding of these things hopefully is yeuchy sticky, trying to image Heros that drift the rift without his Lysander... From the rustbelt I still see individuals poisoning the well in achievments of supervillainy. Among them is that well intentioned Marsh of McLuhan. Mrs. Dee you donot owe him any allegiance to his dichotomized states of mind and syncresies, you understand this whole advertisement scape better than he did in rural Ontario. You with music playing while you wordprocess, isn't the lowly random function on our music libraries enough to dissuade you from believing the nattering of hypersexualized people in the hallway of your building from seeming like specific information packets pertinent to you?
Almost I think our real pleasures in small hormones escape the scale of the intentions that will go to make a more helpful than destructive digital amaneusis. Recognition being one of McLuhan's essential syncresies or heresies or synchronies, but the cyborg newsletters I publish are adequate, machines of consc's, but they are not amenable to "recognition". They come across as injustices, crimes, squeaks of pain I admit likely because those are all in the poetics source code.
Hard for me to see how it is different for you. If anybody was MPGing in your vicinity and outloudly achieving great crimes on Mars wouldn't that just reduce you to a defensive posture? One way I mean here is todate all our efforts so far have reproduced our highschool distance from each other, which then is made trebly dangerous by the ghosting each other phenomenon. Which leaves us filling the gap as you said with works of Whole worlds ( poets have delivered those Ballad of Alfred Prufrock in the past) but their readers fantasized about the manner of the author's death, as a salt in the soup. I mean the blase manner we have now is so expensive in terms of adderal danger of indifference, that it sensitizes us to the free rider problem.
Idknow if I am right, you should watch the 8 day old American Experience Riot Report. President Johnson acknowledged black persons' contriubution to society, and weeks later the people of the hood burned down their groceries. I feel as if acknowledging your loneliness leads to the self limiting phenomenon of pure rage.
Hey hey… hey… “It’s the best publicly available occult practice book I’ve read in a while.” I would like more info about the hard to find ones please 🙏 x
It used to be, when imagining things and pondering questions, one had to develop multiple theories and possible scenarios because of so many variables. Variables where the answer was unknown, or at least not at hand. A lot of reliance on stale encyclopedias, as well as libraries with limited (and also stale) books, coupled with the limitations of the card catalog.
And folklore! "Everyone knows that..." and other such spurious knowledge.
Humans could only do so much.
Now, it is possible to answer the easy questions, and quickly. Eliminate those variables.
Now everything is easy, right? Nope.
Now we have the ability to reckon with bigger questions. Same problem as before, just on a bigger scale. And, even more, synthesize new ideas and quickly put them to the test. Refine, rinse, and repeat.
And sometimes the "folklore" becomes Too Big To Fail.
(Let's take a moment to count our blessings that the easier questions are much more easily answered now.)
A system of new ideas is a (prospective) reality. It might pass the test. It might crash and burn. And some of those realities become Too Big To Fail, or at least too big to fail without collateral damage. But that reality didn't exist before. And the infrastructure to create those realities never before existed.
I think the safetyists freak out (yeah, I said it) because now there are realities that can cause real damage on a much more widespread scale. And the tools to create those realities are much more widely available, or at least to those who can understand how to use them.
Technology is forever and always replacing large problems with new, (hopefully) smaller problems. That's a feature, not a bug. But a not-insignificant number of people hate having their cheese moved, usually because they don't (yet) understand, don't want to take the time and effort to learn, or stand to lose ground personally.
Incidentally, according to famed medieval grimoires such as “the Lesser Key of Solomon,” demons tend to promise technological advancement as a means of ensnaring the souls of the damned, with different demons purported to teach different academic subjects.
The gushing over technology does all kind of sound the same.
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
I had tried to post an image of the original Apple logo (technology, garden of Eden… y’know?) at the end of my comment but it looks like it didn’t display. Shucks…
My understanding of these things hopefully is yeuchy sticky, trying to image Heros that drift the rift without his Lysander... From the rustbelt I still see individuals poisoning the well in achievments of supervillainy. Among them is that well intentioned Marsh of McLuhan. Mrs. Dee you donot owe him any allegiance to his dichotomized states of mind and syncresies, you understand this whole advertisement scape better than he did in rural Ontario. You with music playing while you wordprocess, isn't the lowly random function on our music libraries enough to dissuade you from believing the nattering of hypersexualized people in the hallway of your building from seeming like specific information packets pertinent to you?
Almost I think our real pleasures in small hormones escape the scale of the intentions that will go to make a more helpful than destructive digital amaneusis. Recognition being one of McLuhan's essential syncresies or heresies or synchronies, but the cyborg newsletters I publish are adequate, machines of consc's, but they are not amenable to "recognition". They come across as injustices, crimes, squeaks of pain I admit likely because those are all in the poetics source code.
Hard for me to see how it is different for you. If anybody was MPGing in your vicinity and outloudly achieving great crimes on Mars wouldn't that just reduce you to a defensive posture? One way I mean here is todate all our efforts so far have reproduced our highschool distance from each other, which then is made trebly dangerous by the ghosting each other phenomenon. Which leaves us filling the gap as you said with works of Whole worlds ( poets have delivered those Ballad of Alfred Prufrock in the past) but their readers fantasized about the manner of the author's death, as a salt in the soup. I mean the blase manner we have now is so expensive in terms of adderal danger of indifference, that it sensitizes us to the free rider problem.
Idknow if I am right, you should watch the 8 day old American Experience Riot Report. President Johnson acknowledged black persons' contriubution to society, and weeks later the people of the hood burned down their groceries. I feel as if acknowledging your loneliness leads to the self limiting phenomenon of pure rage.
Hey hey… hey… “It’s the best publicly available occult practice book I’ve read in a while.” I would like more info about the hard to find ones please 🙏 x
Oh my word that last paragraph is so good. “Soon, we cast magic circles in sacred groves, and bend the world to our ends”. Scare :’(
Context: I'm a late-50s GenXer. INTJ.
It used to be, when imagining things and pondering questions, one had to develop multiple theories and possible scenarios because of so many variables. Variables where the answer was unknown, or at least not at hand. A lot of reliance on stale encyclopedias, as well as libraries with limited (and also stale) books, coupled with the limitations of the card catalog.
And folklore! "Everyone knows that..." and other such spurious knowledge.
Humans could only do so much.
Now, it is possible to answer the easy questions, and quickly. Eliminate those variables.
Now everything is easy, right? Nope.
Now we have the ability to reckon with bigger questions. Same problem as before, just on a bigger scale. And, even more, synthesize new ideas and quickly put them to the test. Refine, rinse, and repeat.
And sometimes the "folklore" becomes Too Big To Fail.
(Let's take a moment to count our blessings that the easier questions are much more easily answered now.)
A system of new ideas is a (prospective) reality. It might pass the test. It might crash and burn. And some of those realities become Too Big To Fail, or at least too big to fail without collateral damage. But that reality didn't exist before. And the infrastructure to create those realities never before existed.
I think the safetyists freak out (yeah, I said it) because now there are realities that can cause real damage on a much more widespread scale. And the tools to create those realities are much more widely available, or at least to those who can understand how to use them.
Technology is forever and always replacing large problems with new, (hopefully) smaller problems. That's a feature, not a bug. But a not-insignificant number of people hate having their cheese moved, usually because they don't (yet) understand, don't want to take the time and effort to learn, or stand to lose ground personally.
Oh, this is fantastic. Thank you for sharing it 💞 so pertinent to the things I’m currently writing about
Great timing... I just emailed you!!!
Psychic spidey senses tingling 🤣
Incidentally, according to famed medieval grimoires such as “the Lesser Key of Solomon,” demons tend to promise technological advancement as a means of ensnaring the souls of the damned, with different demons purported to teach different academic subjects.
The gushing over technology does all kind of sound the same.
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
- Genesis 3:4-5, the Bible, KJV
Interesting… 🧐
I had tried to post an image of the original Apple logo (technology, garden of Eden… y’know?) at the end of my comment but it looks like it didn’t display. Shucks…