worldbuilding ⁽¹¹⁾

When I was learning how to pour molten bronze into lost-wax hollows burnt out from slapped-over investments of plaster, in order to create Consorts to the Mountain Goddess, my teacher in metal Matt Carney would say to me, looking at… my dad-bods My dad-bod figures of Gog & Magog (from a series of Deloraine Adonides never poured) “Why don’t you…

I put Saturday morning aside to write on the world and moral philosophy from a framework based in evolution’s minimum viable product. It means most of the time I am pointing out that things are outcomes and not causes, or, worse, causal explanations of many things are not necessary for them to be done in the first place. Examples of…

A large part of my response to the question ¿what is the ethical response to morality? is that we have an moral urge, if not an instinct, to world-build, which in English we can also phrase as as why we should. The details do not matter so much, until we go off worldbuilding ourselves, as much as that we actually should should about something,…

I'll group that type of worlding which is more doctrinal or dogmatic, or focuses on bad outcomes of worlding under the term worldbuilding. I.E. it is a more intentional worlding, which is conscious of its ability to construct the world we live in, but does not see that urge to world, as anything other than something that must be controlled.

To world is a verb. I found this out writing why we should. Morality/religion/art all those things that should be blurred back together are outcomes of the urge to world, just as we compose our bodies from the sustenance of the terrain, in a landscape of care. These posts focus on more postive aspects. The more negative or doctrinal or…