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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…

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…

I used chatGPT4 to generate a bit of a timeline of the history and development of the word Romance and Romantic, it was quite good, especially on the time-saving front. https://chatgpt.com/share/66ece23d-37fc-800d-84e4-d5b8de959225? This conversation may reflect the link creator’s personalized data, which isn’t shared and can meaningfully change how the model responds. meika said: Outline the usages of the words romantic…

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?