why we should

Simone Weil and The Need for Roots as an example of the world-bulding urge, and its sub-urges to order order, when/as\how we should should Originally posted on substack in July 2023. There are many people whose names pass me by and for decades I nod and think, must read them one day. Recent chatbots have developed greater facility to 'read'…

This is a rebooted crosspost from substack written june 2023. See also: Worlding and the sentimental theory of value - part one and Etymology of Romance Terms Romance, romantic are words deriving from the ruination of the empire of the city of Rome. That is, after it empired or end-of-empired, and in those de-intensification of activity and power, its ruins forget their glorious…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Beginning with the abstract's opening. My stepping through my first reading of the abstract might be all I do today. We propose an objective and justifiable ethics that is contingent on the truth of evolutionary theory. Wow. A strong…

When we blame the system what are we are crediting what exactly? Something going according to plan? Something orchestrated to end up in someone's favour at our cost? A cost to us all? We gain a soul at the cost of the world? A lesson learned, put it down to experience? If something is systemic is it just cancerous? An…

Other parts listed at Worlding and the sentimental theory of value - header Supplement on romance & romantic etymology is available here. Generated by chatGPT4 after I wrote the words below. This relates to my notice that when we throw something into the… —gap, we often do so out of an impulse, to world or to self, regardless of the in/consistency or in/coherence…

I'll also list resources used or suplemented along the way here. See also Worlding the love: romance, romantic and roman and Look, is romance a risk?