why we should

Following a comment i made, that ‘meetings made us human’, in response to the following fable: I neologised this Greek monster: Κοσμοσωτηρία Transliterated this is kosmosōtēría which is ‘world-saving’. This is an attempt to meet the soteriological focus of the individual (with an eye on ataraxia) with saving the world, where ‘worlding’ is still a type of ‘selfing, and not…

Originally posted on substack in June 2023. one word prompt “Kludge” to nitro diffusion My use of “worldbuilding” is an attempt to language a notice that when/what various places and periods label: morality/spirit/culture/love/gods/Jesus/One/etc, or enlightenment (really) or whatever, is the unquestion of intention, regarding the question of intention or design and morality. ¿what is the ethical response to morality? I…

The first on a series of books I enjoyed reading long ago. A list of this will be found at Reading guilty pleasures. I read Elaine Morgan's 1972 Descent of Woman and then 1982 The Aquatic Ape in the mid to late 80s when “man the hunter’ was, well at least to me, moribund as an idea, and so that…

This page lists books that I have really enjoyed reading despite their contents being out of whack with the direction of consensus consideration. If not whacky. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while but discovering Robert Ardrey’s second science essay book The Territorial Impulse on my grandparents shelves reminded me that Elaine Morgan’s book The Aquatic Ape was…

In my opening of this series on reading Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative I mention his use of Jean-Jacques Petter's term of noyau as a label for a society of inward antgonism (page 168). In the second post Figuring out the grounds beneath the world: noyau, lek and home I explore the noyau in relation to other similar notions in…

The “extended phenotype” is a phrase I collected on reading the book of the same name by Richard Dawkins. It's where that word 'meme' as idea brain parasitic replicate was born. At the time in the early 90s I thought we could move onto talking about 'rede's and interpretive viewpoints about epigenetics but the cybertroll bros have potholed us on…