List of all whyweshold.substack.com posts, as at April 2024
MEIKA LOOFS SAMORZEWSKI
MARCH 2024
one might argue, you might cook, we might eat, we might talk
metaphor analogies you by way of the world like the way coins are words
metaphor me a ratio just like you
a halting problem I've been thinking about for three decades
general intelligence and the inner stochastic parrot
Me third go at a zero shot, by analogy metaphor carried me here.
wherein the stochastic parrot is not mentioned
Dialectics as a pointless Valhalla
fighting to die to heave up out of death to fight again
all constants are magical noise
Duck-bananas of our known worlds
The chart of your purchases could be embroidered into the suit you are wearing in real time.
blur : two examples that are one example
we need to blur with intent not deceit
Games in the hide of our names
Skin in the game & Agent Nassim Nicholas Taleb's journey in the new world
FEBRUARY 2024
Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie
Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves and a cameo by Fyodor Dostoevsky
as if "me" was a verb 'to me' then what me-s me to I?
the blur as a technique in the methodology space
like learning to draw, like tasting ingredients
worlding example : crypto fairy tales
ideology is not the only orchard of strange fruit
worlding (world-building) : arting/religioning/marketing
outsider art and stuffing around
JANUARY 2024
the blame game takes all the credit
Binding William Hazlitt’s 'An Essay on the Principles of Human Action…'
bookbinding a notebooking copy
or hinge, the threshold where Janus dances, the gate is a dance
Thrown into being Heidegger: to world versus welten
notes how others use the word 'worlding': an environmental scan of the usages
one of these things is not here
the… —gap ~ a refresher course
a list of aporia I generalise into the… —gap
I grok you innerstanding, geddit?
usage of words neologised if not eulogised
the comfort zones of doctrine and dogma, traps for the unworldly
DECEMBER 2023
a morally authoritative intangible
Lip-service is the purer behaviour.
ritual embeddings, festive rants
Life as it is? It is always shoulded, is it not?
how it is that empires mean we cannot have good things
Communications: opacity and the finicky printer
printery examples, the... ---gap as interdisciplinary lead
nevermind the just-so stories (trigger warning -- guinea pigs)
Henri Bergson was wrong, but in a good way
3 minutes of quotes that try to reframe our animal assumptions
I read the whole thing: In Defense of Conservatives Credit, where credit is due
NOVEMBER 2023
contronym… —when the source is the sink it is all about the flow
I have explained a lot and ended up with no pleasure at all.
conspiracies of emotional laziness in feeling empowerless
rituals and worlding, religion = doctrinal world-building
Returning in reframe to the flow
the world is the thickest concept
lecture notes on gradients of thick description and thin control
A wonderful straightedge of a book, Lorraine Daston's Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
write what you know they say, it'll be fun they said
How others are using the word and the thing that is the world, also digital suffering?
not just me wondering and agenting into the world/worlding/worldbuilding
an object lesson in the libation of time
it's like we assume too much like a record baby
OCTOBER 2023
If agency is more than (freedom to/from) what are its mores?
Stability: order versus the hierarchy
Stability is not what your prefer it to be
Agency recognises the world we live in, not the one we fight over.
Freedom to/from liberty… —lack thereof
policing the psychopaths without putting foxes in charge of the hen house
I've been writing boundaries for various ontologies…
Don Quixote & Loki - the remix Don Quixloki
Ulay versus the bones of Descartes
SEPTEMBER 2023
Castles in the air, a high dudgeon
Joint attention 101 – mind blown
neurodiversity and other sub-atomic particles
Proportions of the Janus ratio
Or, not what I had planned, which involved a matrix of ratios on self/world:reality
Asking an LLM to simplify ‘Humiliating the world?’
after some requests to me to make sense and to make clear
Humility as a newly found fundamental particle of psychology
making sense of the gap we pivot on to (self/world)
we world eternally in infinite jest
The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
No order at all, not even chaos. Not even wrong.
This post is a coathanger for the book, so here is my takeaway. Onion dolls are us.
Noting Iris Murdoch quoting Wittgenstein and friends
I don’t really review books, but mine them for profit.
AUGUST 2023
Iris Murdoch and the good of it
No/true!, it's not nothing all the way down either.
Getting Ursula le Guin and Iris Murdoch to chat a bit
I use bing chat LLM because it is more boring, and there is a limit.
From selfing in worlding to sovereignty
meika worlding Iris Murdoch's Wittgenstein
Piranesi, the shepherd worlding their selves
The Shepherd of Hermas versus Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
Seeing the self for the world, we cannot see the world we do
On the appearance of a living buddha in Hobart, Tasmania
down to the sky, up to the pool… —and Colin WIlson
From Asgardia to ancient African steel
(not mentioning Paul Blooms' against empathy today)
Esther Vilar’s The Manipulated Man. (London: Abelard-Schuman, 1972. ISBN 0200718754) Ken's on top.
JULY 2023
.before country (not forgetting ⓪ ∅)
What are you rebelling aginst? What have you got? A better world or a better logic?
Can you fix the world by typing better?
Slash-and-burn is a category killer, just watch me blur a cleaving to/apart
more Cormac Orthography, a detailed little devil
Im/morality and the authoritarian devils among us
JUNE 2023
Cormac Orthography, more or less
Recently, novelist Cormac McCarthy died.
There is no narrative, but, the show must go…. —on
last tilt at the world before I finally move on to some orthography.
It's intention all the way down.
Moral urge = a world-building hunger.
Reason ① versus Reason ② while currently reading Terry Eagleton's Culture and the Death of God
If the world is a thing we have made, then all things are in the world.
we are human because we have meetings
Books from old forgotten romantic empires read in childhood, Russia and the world
Giants and dwarves, designers of no import
MAY 2023
world unfolding by making it up
the metaethics of evolution, why do we care about this, should we?
a poetic making us world our words
because Rolf Harris has been buried this last week
The (moral urge / world building urge) plex
beliefs that proposition 'p' versus the world
Worldbuilding 102… —Don’t judge the future.
a half-baked beginning, morality, ethics and tomorrow
Reading into memories of the origins of virtue
Matt Ridley's The Origins of Virtue (London: Viking, 1997)
Why we praise primacy… —the creative doubt
Review reaction remix of books on doubt and "believe"
APRIL 2023
vowels space, flocks of birds, mapping plans, composing ourselves intently
Mapping the gap: Why don’t you use more definition?
Beginning to define my usage while gapping-up the maps of us. Matt Carney & me.
really really, yes really, really really really
or, I must get onto that literature search soon
suspending oneself in judgement
Academic careers as [instagramish] filters over scholarship and history. Discuss.
Mapping the gap: The night sky is full of constellations rickrolling unicorns for fun and profit.
the first gap is the future, it's child's play
the gap-hunter must known the country, the gatherer of gaps knits them into the world
The woomera is a multitool, get over it you lazy bastards
writing and reading densities, the #proverb, the #pun, the #multitool and life.
MARCH 2023
Asking AI via chatGPT about pronouns and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time
per AIdua, ad astra #compositionality #pronouns #SF
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022) #reaction #review #ISBN9780691240534
Social mediation… —Primary doubt ① & ②
I mean, what have the symbols ever done for us?
Like the poor, grammarians are always with us.
St Ciarán, Nick Lane, Lynn Margulis, Roger Penrose and the taphonomy of gaps within us without us
Incompleteness, lack, aporia, unknown unknowns and how we carry on regardless
Why I no longer arts artifacts into artefactual fits and starts : religion/art/ritual/drama/routine
Aaron Wright's ‘Why I No Longer Call It “Art” ’#rockart #ritualactivity #pyrrho #outcomes
Example of a bad "should" No. 0001
We shouldn’t should on people, including ourselves.
Children are wonderful, if I didn't have kids, I'd walk around thinking I was Rimbaud all the time.
Laziness is possible because of effort
FEBRUARY 2023
Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art
hmmm, yeah but nah (genetics, memetics and the extended West Cork reminiscence of bookish futility)
Mary Beth Willard’s 'Why It’s Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists'
#ISBN9780367898649 a reaction review
#moralleadership, teenagers running amok
Flowcharting faith-based faith versus faith-obeying-reason
mapping Christian byways of #worldbuilding #faithbased #faith #fideism #obedience
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/flowcharting-faith-based-faith-versus
Fideism, reason and the gap that is always there
Arnold Lunn. The Revolt against Reason. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951.
Mark Dooley's Roger Scruton and my modest proposal
Fideism the Heresy & Obedience
the extra bit about St Augustine of Hippo
To build a better world, we should destroy the Catholic Church.
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JANUARY 2023
Casewell’s Jaspers, but meika’s Deleuzian Bergsonism.
Self-care as salvation-- all authenticity but no responsibility
In the olden days a blogpost was a link and a word or two: why "why we should"
what is the ethical response to morality?
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/in-the-olden-days-a-blogpost-was