why we should

Can you fix the world by typing better? The world is made in the same moment we are each born, and just as helpless. We are each already there, but not quite all there. This is part of the help and part of the helplessness. Baby and world are not the same thing, not even the same kind of thing,…

Pro tip: attack the psychopaths and their grandiose narcissism, and not the authoritarian outcomes of their injurious actions to our world. A recent article 4 reasons not teaching evolution in schools is immoral on the conversation gives these points as moral reasons: equality of opportunity, free inquiry, fairness and public reasoning, and intellectual honesty, within the context that authoritarian governments east and west are…

if we subsume meaning, morality, philosophy, culture, religion, art, polity into one category what would it be called? I keep dipping into Large Language models (LLMs) and being annoyed when not disappointed. Better than neural networks? Are data-painters better than balsa-wood ships in a bottle? LLMs just do not operate where I am operating. If I was schizoid I would…

This follows on from reaction 1 to Peter L. Berger : meaning is a lazy ritual. There's no introduction here and ends up way more anti-clerical than I had imagined. We start from about page 35 of: Cultural Analysis : the work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986) which…

Books I've ordered are arriving, and as is traditional, they arrive in order of least desperately wanted first. So, the first is a general introduction to four writers on culture, which came out when I was 21 years old. Back then I was reading Stirner and anarchist SF. Cultural Analysis : the work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel…

Once upon a time in the beginning was the word and everything was the text. A sublime mechanick whose logicks, predicated on magicks, preyed on our prayers. But… —if, as I have been saying, much of what we do and name, and seek cause for, are outcomes of an urge we do not name, but just live wordlessly, then when…