Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Some of the men moving in the dark of night are friends and they are bringing each other home.

You've got to think things through, you know.

I had been, at some level, sincerely considering making a flying contraption UNTIL I read something this morning that indicated I might crash it in the desert, which would maim me and force me to rely on Siri or a smartspeaker with verbal commands.

It sounds so thin without a California Quaker sermonizing about brotherhood and peace.

I once listened to a one-hour remix of 14 avril at the same time as Richard Nixon's inaugural address, and now I like it so much I can't listen to 14 avril any other way.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ido3BmswnX8>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyhSEvfaUs>

Read Thucydides. A righteous justification is something you develop exactly before you eat shit.

What would you do if you knew you could rationalize everything?

You have the sense that it's never going to get much better than this. You saw the sites once. That's better than most people ever get. Your cousins don't understand. They want to say something kind but it just makes you cry. You had a brief moment in the sun but you haven't proven useful to your superiors in years. So you ask some embarrassing questions in the hipster coffee shop and you'll start to learn the technique at home. But at least you'll be at home and not here.

You don't really want to live here. You have told yourself that it might be acceptable to live anywhere so long as there's a coffee shop like this, a beacon of culture slathered in the worst paint job you've ever seen. But now you're here and you're trying to be happy, and so you know at last that this is not enough. It is not enough to be better than expected. You will never get to make good on scouting an under-valued life because you will never be able to cash in on the speculation.

Under-estimation is the coin of this realm. You'll never get the best of anything. You'll never even get anything good because you have no money and no one thinks you're even worthy of employment. But you act as if you have the eye of a connoisseur: you can see the rough gems, uncut from the vein. And as part of this self-concept you will go to the coffee shop next to the vinyl store and none of the tables will ever stop wiggling. You will wince when you pay two hours' wages for two coffees.

You are trying to be happy. It is the summer in 2014 and you have never had any money but somehow you are attempting a vacation to someplace unnoteworthy, but the kind of place where the hip kids from the surrounding backwoods have escaped to. You know the place -- you're never getting to live in NYC or California or Denver or the PNW, but you can live here and you won't ever have to see your high school again as long as you live. You can tell yourself it's hip or under-estimated. ...

- that on these aspects of reality the same phenotype can self-structure adaptive behaviors
- that some of these adaptive behaviors include self-understanding and self-awareness through the sign-process
- that sign-processes about self-understanding and self-awareness can reciprocally re-structure the phenotype's self-organization
- that patterns of self-organizations which facilitate the review of adaptations tend to find more and better adaptations to their environments

- some forms of mimesis are less subject to entropy, including those that re-structure or translate adjacent primitive forms, indicating that translative action is an emergent property of physics
- that the phenotypic results of translative mimesis evolve into behavior
- that the compounded behavior of one phenotypic result of translative mimesis (with a really big and complex neural sign-process) isolates and combines the compositional, mimetic, and translative aspects of reality ...

The models that make our shiny tech work indicate that:
- the cosmos emerges out of the stochastic, entropic interactions of fundamental fields of forces
- the stochastic interactions of those forces accumulate into primitive forms that exhibit compositionality indicates that compositionality is an intrinsic property of the universe
- compositions from primitive forms can yield basic patterns of mimesis, indicating that mimesis is an intrinsic property of reality
...

*Instauratio Magna*

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJwOkq-imU&list=OLAK5uy_lmah89FyzpOhM201_xlmTRTNlYs43PwmU&index=11

I'm so fucking psyched for Cosmopolis.

The final season of White Lotus will be in Israel.