The Trauma Coup
After the storming of the Capitol, the President of the United States has been banned from Twitter (the main way he communicates with the general public) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put out a video...
View ArticleLanguage, Power, and the Categorical Imperative
The Chieftain of Seir's essay The Crisis of Authority provides a helpful historical link between models I've laid out elsewhere. I wrote a long comment that I want to reproduce here. I'm responding...
View ArticleWho controls the vertical? Who controls the horizontal?
Recently I've been investigating a phenomenological distinction between two different kinds of vision. The first is horizontal, peripheral, reactive, associated with "shifty-eyed" lateral eye...
View ArticleFloating into Awareness
Finally getting something out of sensory deprivation float tank time. Most recently went in for 90m, spent first 30-45 minutes just paying mindful awareness to my defense mechanisms anxiously craving...
View ArticleInner Ring as Adversary
Inner rings, as described in CS Lewis's eponymous lecture, structurally orient around a kind of evasiveness. In this Twitter thread, Venkatesh Rao somehow evades something extremely explicit and basic...
View ArticleSelf-Criticism vs Self-Blame
"There is nothing wrong with you" is a helpful but false statement from within a frame that reifies personal wrongness. But we can just decompose personal wrongness into its components! There's...
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