thank you, Alex, for a post that included both Roerich and Ant Farm; putting them together makes something click. Still an un-nameable something. Even when faced with violence, the ontology of love seems still wise -- I don't regret being friendly to my captors, even if they denied me insulin, the friendliness surely helped. They are part of god too, even if they are part of god acting in strange ways.
Identifying a certain direction, ideology class as the 'enemy' may seem more sophisticated than targeting an ethnicity or religion, but it still involves the same scapegoating friend-enemy making. And if you or anyone else wants to see people as evil oppressor vampires, you can -- i certainly have no power, only am words on the internet making some case for our shared existence here, Kochs and all.
But lets get practical: as a contribution towards the project of buying some property together, in my taste by the waterline, but it could be elsewhere, i’m an anywhere dude, maybe not turtle island, but also, flexible, let me propose an activity: I propose eight articles connected to TTSOE and you suggest eight thought jewels. Then you write the TTSOE and I do the thought jewels and we cross promotion and these articles make us so successful on substack we can buy an island in miami! (that was humor at the end, or attempt at such) ok, here’s my list of eight things that should exist:
(1) cooperatively owned vacation housing where you can cook in, so the kitchens in these apartment get stocked, there’s collective recipes, it’s an apartment in a city with great markets and foodways....like airbnb, but instead of being a disgusting creepy anti-social anti-aesthetic capitalist startup (airbnb....my scapegoat?) -- it’s a pro-aesthetic prosocial cooperative.
(2)
large centers for people to live who need to do drugs all the time; they can consensually, safely, and comfortably and privately get high and be supervised, and then also be offered free consensual holistic and compassionate recovery protocols, at their consent.
(3) you may disagree, but a form of wokeness that is not tied to essential identity, i.e, one that recognizes that who we are is situational, performative; creative -- i called this ‘hyperwoke’
(4) this is related to (1) -- but collective kitchens in cities for people to come and learn to be better chefs together. I proposed this in the german context as the ‘gastronomisch gemeinschaft’ (gaygay) but it also could have a less tuetonic handle.
(5) a website that features highly addictive mind deepening contextual news at different scales, from headline to picture to longform text - think drudgereport but with the goal of deepening internal attention ecologies.
(6) ‘self-dialog’ - a way for people to use writing, maybe a chat-bot, to do a form of self-IFS work; that is, figure out their parts and then get in touch with them in a friendly and fun way.
(7) an app that lets you makes art/symbol history and symbol history addictive.
(8) another app, a social media one, one that lets you learn languages in an osmotic and creative way, with other people, making stuff in a new language, just the way you learned your first language (see, krashen, input hypothesis)
thank you, Alex, for a post that included both Roerich and Ant Farm; putting them together makes something click. Still an un-nameable something. Even when faced with violence, the ontology of love seems still wise -- I don't regret being friendly to my captors, even if they denied me insulin, the friendliness surely helped. They are part of god too, even if they are part of god acting in strange ways.
Identifying a certain direction, ideology class as the 'enemy' may seem more sophisticated than targeting an ethnicity or religion, but it still involves the same scapegoating friend-enemy making. And if you or anyone else wants to see people as evil oppressor vampires, you can -- i certainly have no power, only am words on the internet making some case for our shared existence here, Kochs and all.
But lets get practical: as a contribution towards the project of buying some property together, in my taste by the waterline, but it could be elsewhere, i’m an anywhere dude, maybe not turtle island, but also, flexible, let me propose an activity: I propose eight articles connected to TTSOE and you suggest eight thought jewels. Then you write the TTSOE and I do the thought jewels and we cross promotion and these articles make us so successful on substack we can buy an island in miami! (that was humor at the end, or attempt at such) ok, here’s my list of eight things that should exist:
(1) cooperatively owned vacation housing where you can cook in, so the kitchens in these apartment get stocked, there’s collective recipes, it’s an apartment in a city with great markets and foodways....like airbnb, but instead of being a disgusting creepy anti-social anti-aesthetic capitalist startup (airbnb....my scapegoat?) -- it’s a pro-aesthetic prosocial cooperative.
(2)
large centers for people to live who need to do drugs all the time; they can consensually, safely, and comfortably and privately get high and be supervised, and then also be offered free consensual holistic and compassionate recovery protocols, at their consent.
(3) you may disagree, but a form of wokeness that is not tied to essential identity, i.e, one that recognizes that who we are is situational, performative; creative -- i called this ‘hyperwoke’
(4) this is related to (1) -- but collective kitchens in cities for people to come and learn to be better chefs together. I proposed this in the german context as the ‘gastronomisch gemeinschaft’ (gaygay) but it also could have a less tuetonic handle.
(5) a website that features highly addictive mind deepening contextual news at different scales, from headline to picture to longform text - think drudgereport but with the goal of deepening internal attention ecologies.
(6) ‘self-dialog’ - a way for people to use writing, maybe a chat-bot, to do a form of self-IFS work; that is, figure out their parts and then get in touch with them in a friendly and fun way.
(7) an app that lets you makes art/symbol history and symbol history addictive.
(8) another app, a social media one, one that lets you learn languages in an osmotic and creative way, with other people, making stuff in a new language, just the way you learned your first language (see, krashen, input hypothesis)