Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Most non-Americans can't even find Arizona on a map!

I'm going to have the Paris effect if I ever get to Erfurt:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/erfurt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Erfurt

87.3% of non-US Americans can't find these on a map, but Cosmic Industries will be looking at early election results from these states:
Absaroka
Delmarva
Deseret
Madawaska
South Georgia
Westsylvania
Winnecone

THREE of these are on the EAST of the Central Time Barrier. ONE is on the WEST. Figure it out yet?

Want to understand the way tomorrow's election will go? You need to study this map and consider its relevance to the Central Time Barrier.

Here's a hint for eagle-eyed election wachers:
https://www.southernliving.com/east-coast-vs-west-coast-butter-8606853

TWO things that non-US Americans may not understand:
1. Why Election Day comes right after Daylight Savings Time this year
2. The function of the Central Time Barrier in the US

Comment below if you understand the relationship.

If you're an educated person and most of the Americans you interact with are educated people, I think there's a strong likelihood that you have no idea how pervasive Qanon is in America. Talk of cannibalistic elites is more common than, say, unionization.

The anarchists discipline their ranks by exposing their backsliders to elections, and thereby subjecting them to the agonizing and paradoxical combination energies that politicians provide: nerd and theater kid energy.

Democracy is a system by which the anarchists punish us statists by sending their most marginally pro-social representative to be a representative of chaotic neutral in order to generate the surprise needed to steer the ship of self-organization. We democrats think that we are settling issues by a comparing crowd sizes, but the truth of it is that all of this happens in a clearing created by the silent anarchist majority.

The liberal subject -- autonomous, empirical, rational -- was the culmination of an Enlightenment project of public *paideia,* or *bildung*.

We're in a moment of crisis due to the revolution in media technologies that are used in the formation of liberal subjectivities.

Exciting stuff is going on in material-adjacent fields all the time: really cool friction welding techniques achieve great results with totally plain-jane aluminum, anisotropic carbon fiber composites create really cool performance traits, etc.

"Walking on eggshells" is basically the phenomenology of internalizing a norm or standard. A person who feels like walking on eggshells is not experiencing something contrary to tyranny, but is participating in it. Tyrants and tyrannizing personalities want you to feel like you're walking on eggshells. They want you to be painfully self-aware. They want you, you, YOU to feel the blame.

At the end of the day, this is what it all comes down to, right? There's just an internal switch that gets thrown and you direct your energy to B instead of A. As much as people try to rationalize the process, almost all of that stuff is window dressing around a big gaping aporia beyond any faculty of reason. People make original choices when they're re-awaken to freedom -- typically by being in the presence of someone else acting truly free, novel, and original-- and the rest is just commentary

An unrivaled force in behavior change is "I realized that was stupid and stopped doing it one day." Follow me if you want more useful tips.

For me, the mark of a superior philosopher is one's ability to make lifelong friendships with excellent people:
Nicholas of Cusa had Toscanelli and Cesarini;
Hamann had Kant, Berens, Herder and many others;
Peirce had James (although not many others);
Henry George had many, including Tom L. Johnson.