why we should

wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism Monotropism is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel. This cognitive strategy has been posited as the central underlying feature of autism. The theory of monotropism was developed by Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser starting in the 1990s, and first published in 2005.[1] Lawson's further work on the theory…

(midjourney 2023: failed on Greek red-black vase style, failed on pear tree, failed on duck-rabbit on mushroom) prompt /imagine Ludwig Wittgenstein reading St Augustine of Hippo under a pear tree, greek red-black vase style, a rabbit-duck watches Ludwig from a low mushroom (stolen wrist-pears are not coloured?) Miles is well aware of the… —gap. I am reading his newly [re]-formed…

down to the sky, up to the pool… —and Colin Wilson I was cataloguing Colin Wilson’s memoir The Angry Years, and I thought, who is he again? Colin Wilson is one of those boomer generational figures who have had little impact on my on cohort of genXers. His books would have passed my gaze in second hand book shops, in…

Mapping Christian byways of worldbuilding by way of a flowchart. an aside The usage of terms like “worldbuilding” here is the reason this writing has been written, i.e. I hope I can more fully explore and explain what wworlding is, as a substitute for a lot of 'things' that are outcomes of the moral/worlding urge, but we treat as causal,…

The re-post below this introduction, was originally posted as The fable that is modern literature in 2021. It describes an experience from a decade before at Parables of Submission, Fables of Truth-Based Creativity. Reposted here because it relates to literature and thus to world-building, and thus worlding and morality more generally. Basically literature is always fantasy where it prefers non-flat…

There is this wonderful book written by Lorraine Daston called Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures. Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780691156989). I say wonderful because it is one of those histories which illuminates by way of the taphonomy of etymology, of usage in their historical contexts, rather than, say, a list…