The human species is a Promethean fire in the universe and this is a good thing for the universe.

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whoops just gonna introduce the finious causation of sign-relations into material dialectics

hopefully the cosmos likes getting tethered up to the eschaton

Tired normative stance: I must pursue [inhuman moral X]. The fact that I do anything else is an accident of my biology and a better person would expunge it for me.

Wired normative stance: My ethos is rooted in the bios of the human, semiosis is the sensorium, and screwing around with culture is an imaginative and possibility-building act for myself and the cosmos.

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