Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Sometimes the way that grown-ups shout "I'M IN CHARGE I'M IN CHARGE" is by withholding information and shooting down the contributions of everyone around.

@kirch This guy keeps inserting metaphor into things; just jamming it in to conversations. You can scream "no no no" but he's going to force his attention to imagery no matter what.

If I'm talking to a person and they reference the concept of balance then I stop taking them seriously.

"Balance" is the fakest thing to have ever existed. Complete cope.

@dankmilk69420@stranger.social caffeine... Is Good.

Look, folks, there's only one forbidden fruit and only one vengeful Source. Eco socialism needs to get its own metaphysics.

One of my teenage friends liked to do drugs and make art, and one time he took acid and came to the conclusion that his keyboard was going to eat him if he moved.

I think of this when I think of people who live in the materially richest conditions to every exist but use their personal technological marvels to write messages to anonymous strangers that consumption is a curse, that the Earth will righteously kill her children, and that confronting people with this truth will help bring utopia.

The banana discourse is great. It's amazing that there's a large group of people who construe their basic consumption practices through the most catastrophized frame possible. They believe that vehemently expressing this catastrophized judgment is really important to achieving utopia (which is on a 10-50 year timeline BTW). These people can only find each other online -- they obviously have no way to manifest these schizoid stances to their own economic realities in day-to-day life.

What is the word for this stance towards auto-interpretation? It's got something to do with a suspicion of profilicity.

@manav@brinjal.org related
https://schelling.pt/@cosmiccitizen/110731061646701925

@manav@brinjal.org Love it. The only thing worse than the naive materialism that gets slopped around elite discourse is the flimsy denial of the same naive materialism.

I woke up and thought "I'd like to see Tokyo before IT happens" and I don't have a specific idea of what I meant by "it."

Sometimes you'll notice that people will subvert the intended organization of a place of commerce to create a space for reception. For example, even in crowded bookstores people will collectively shape little wedges to stand apart and take in something, or generate little wedges on which readers might perch themselves.

So for example, a drive-through is kind of like a funhouse mirror of a third space. Drive-throughs serve the same explicit purposes as many third spaces, but because they don't permit for the patient, appreciative reception of the good or service, they do not support any form of culture.
Drive-ins are marginally closer, but not by much, because the space of reception at a drive-in is insulated from the audience by the layer of another space for reception, the car.

One of the most important patterns in third places is that the third place must define and delimit the zone of the activity that is the purported purpose of that space. There must be a place to serve drinks / lift weights / browse books as well as a space to *not* do those things.

Activity can be constituted in such a way that it anticipates its reception, and a functional space can be constituted in such a way that it organizes the space to receive that function.

If I'm honest, Tyler the Creator is on my shortlist of "the only musicians who matter anymore."