Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
Everything we talk about re: policing and anarchy is downstream from the fact that industrial modernity is very good at mashing organs, ESPECIALLY the one organ that does all the motor-sequencing and social regulation.
Through an odd coincidence, a similar proportion of the population in developed countries also experience Traumatic Brain Injuries.
96% of people with brain injuries have substance use problems.
People with brain injuries are 19x more likely to go to prison. Of US prisoners, some proportion between half and four-fifths have brain injuries.
<https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/a-huge-share-of-prisoners-have-brain-injuries-they-need-more-help>
<https://www.economist.com/international/2021/03/27/brain-injuries-are-startlingly-common-among-those-who-have-committed-crimes>
Ahh no big. Cognitive deficits can probably be papered over, right? Cognition is for nerds and shit. I'm sure that the losers of this birth lottery won't live lives that are nastier, more brutish, and shorter than the rest of their cohort.
10.5% of babies in the US are going to be born prematurely, and they're going to have cognitive flexibility, reading, & verbal skills that are half a standard deviation below average, quantitative skills that are three-quarters of a standard deviation down, and working memory that's more than a third of a standard deviation down.
We can basically isolate & identify a major vector of cognitive inequality from the delivery ward.
Just as a fully systematic [poasting] might be an illusion, a completely unsystematic [poasting] would instantly kill off every intellectual ambition. Thus the challenge of [poasting] consists in the attempt to think systematically but without allowing thought to stagnate in a final set of truths or dogma.
"As a philosophical form, the [shitpost] reflects the conditions of modernity. In Friedrich Schlegel’s view, the hyper-reflexive expressive registers of irony and humor are particularly suited to voice the modern mindset, and are, as such, intrinsically linked to the [shitpost]"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/novalis/#FraPhiFor
The shitpost is the contemporary advance of the philosophical genre of "fragment" as developed by Schlegel and Novalis.
The dull horror of realizing you used an important term incorrectly in conversation with a person you respect but don't know well enough to explain the misunderstanding.
luv 2 re-experience a car crash in my dreams
It's interesting to talk to people from other anglosphere countries where entering the field of medicine isn't like signing your life away to be micromanaged by the 1983 winner of "Most Coked Up 80s Guy" competition.
I have personally known two committed, lifelong anarchists.
One is a very kind, humble, gentle friend whose main vice is that he's a bit of a softie.
The other is a grandiose, image-driven wannabe revolutionary who became a lawyer and stopped speaking to me when we had a trivial misunderstanding.
Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ
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it is dawn, yet the sun already singes the sand. it seems to smoke angrily, perhaps just a trick of the shimmering air. there is a thick quietness, save for the gentle sigh of the land as horned lizards burrow into it, drunk on heat. i sip my tea, and think to myself (in fluent darija) how nice it would be in a small garden awash with temperate breeze, looking into an enchanted slab of glass containing conversant phantoms of my friends, on a phantom-container named after an extinct elephant
Sleeping 8 hours is so good omfg
did u know? If you say this is wrong, you are not actually Bri'ish!
did u know? In the UK, it's spelled "computre," which is why you only encounter people *pretending* to be Bri'ish on this computer network -- all the real Brits are on the *computre" network!
Q1. Hey Alan Moore and Grant Morrison! What are UK comics going to do with the trauma incumbent in life in a late-colonial-imperial system?
A1. "We're going to do psychedelics and walk through a forest."
Q2. Hey Frank Miller! What are US comics going to do with the trauma incumbent in life in a late-colonial-imperial system?
A2. "I want to fuck a gun."
Let me just take a big drink of coffee and check to see if my society's institutions of success through maximum grittiness have ever promoted behaviors that are brutally abusive or which leverage the threat of extreme abuse...
There's a character trait that's valued in my culture, something like "grit" or work-ethic, that's fundamentally based on training young people with techniques of shock and fear to override their limbic system's behavioral brakes for self-preservation.
You know what really challenges a metaphysics of organism? Sex and reproduction. And that's precisely where Plato's laws become absurd and inhumane.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
