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Aesthetic experience is the sign-vehicle waving around in the breeze, all flaunty and sanguine in its rhematic firstness.

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>develop an arcane system of code
>use it to create art
>submit the art to galleries
>explain nothing

literally GOATed artistic strategy

Kicking the can down the road is like the definition of an Infinite Game.

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I'm sick of hearing slander against kicking the can down the road. Sometimes that is the very best solution. The road is long and the can can be kicked an indefinite number of times.

Brushing your teeth is kicking the can down the road.
Going to bed on time is kicking the can down the road.
Paying your bills is kicking the can down the road.

Nowhere is it written that there is always going to be an elegant, perfect solution, a sliceable gordian knot that holds together all of our ills.

The true power of the Internet is to furnish the subconscious with new and original horrors to dread. To subdue the id with a menagerie of hypersalient grotesques. The untutored drives within a person must be trained harshly to retract from an etic reality that is hellish and monstrous.

New EA cause area: get 7 tycoons to fund the reconstruction of the Wonders of the Ancient World, but make sure they're located in really climate-change-vulnerable areas.

For example, if you rebuilt the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus at Bodrum, Turkey, the port has already had like 15cm of sea level rise since '99.

To be clear: I think Rock & Roll is very, very, very good. It is my favorite kind of music, and I could listen exclusively to Rock & Roll until I die.

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If we're being honest, it's like listening to a personality disorder.

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Do you ever think about how unhinged someone had to be to invent Rock & Roll?

This is not exclusively negative. US Americans have literally done crash courses on Critical Theory because of the culture war. You could get us having bitter, hate-filled arguments about CRISPR or the canon of Attic Orators if you first gave us some way to tell which parts are outgroup and which parts are ingroup.

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