Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

I genuinely gasped when I read this.

"There is but one infinite game."

εὐρύς = the broadness (planet Earth)
εὐρ - ώπη = the broad-eyed (cow)

I achieved Socratic flight today while denouncing Apollo as a rapist. Christianity achievement unlocked.

Isn't it weird that I have a day job?

I'm gonna hypostatisize a major moral imperative into trivial lip-service, then browbeat anyone else who doesn't let me rewrite our mutual commitments on the basis of my lip service.

I'M SORRY, I GUESS I'M THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO'S ACTING MOOOORALLY.

With all due apologies, I find it very improbable that "Cat's in the Cradle" breaks through anyone's shell. People who have raised little kids up to be grown adults will either already know at some level that they've been shitheels or they never will.

It's a solid song, though, and I think it's been a useful work of art for expressing and facilitating conversations by kids about parenting.

The funny thing about Schiller and eros is that he's literally the Chad meme.

Gotta learn more about Herder and Schiller's views of eros. How is eros incorporated into self-definition? or play-drive?

It's hard to explain what I think is so magical about this chain of transmission.

You start off with the dog-torturing asshole Descartes giving us some real drunk dad philosophy about how you can't trust anything. You start in this really grim position of this corpse-universe of efficient action grinding away empty matter on empty matter.

But by the end of this chain of critique, you actually come all the way around to this fascinating view of reality as intrinsically meaningful.

Part 4. Peirce says "no," these things attributed to the mind are all fake, the mind is fake, most of the phenomenal ooze is fake, EXCEPT there are a handful of transcendental bits that are actually totally real and necessary for signs to work. And signs working is the base reality now.

(Wait a minute, you may say: If the mind is fake then what is receiving all the signs? Of course the answer is that semiosis interprets itself, you silly goose. Semiosis is the atomic form of phenomenal ooze.)

Part 3. Kant says that human ethical independence is so totalizing that not even the intrinsic grandeur and nobility of self-development can overcome moral duty. The human subjectivity must be accepted as capable of total moral accountability. This same subjectivity, just by chance, is also where Kant is going to stash all the phenomenal ooze, albeit in 12 discrete boxes. The universe is still mechanistic and objective, but your psychology is secretly holding it all together.

It's hard to explain a delightful little dance of concepts I discovered today.

Part 1. The Aufklärung sets up an idea of an atomistic, mechanistic, objectively meaningless universe with a scintilla of dualistic subjectivity left to catch all of the phenomenal ooze of reality.

Part 2. Herder wrecks this system, describing how language and art are innately expressive and allow humans to objectively create meaning even in such a universe. Self-development is the crowning glory of the universe.

You think you can solve this by recommitting to friendly civic & social engagement with each other? Those protocols were defined for healthy, non-internet-poisoned people. Good luck.

The stable caring attachments will continue to be degraded until the advertisers are satisfied with social media traffic. Your society-wide BPD experience of hollowness and abandonment is not a problem for the people selling Chips Ahoy.

This is what Star Wars, The Matrix, and Avatar all understand: for the full neuronal thrill of an FX blockbuster, filmmakers must introduce some new concept of proprioception. After Star Wars, people fantasize about swinging swords made of light. After the Matrix, people fantasize about bullet time. After Avatar, (IDK I want my thesis to be true so I'll act like) people fantasize about the neuralink stuff.

why do i post things like this

As Plato describes in the Timaeus, we can understand the dopaminerge by the patterns and forms of this world, but we can't understand the "form of Dopamine" (ἡ τοῦ dopamine ἰδέα) unless we were somehow outside of creation.