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Been reading Howard Nemerov this afternoon, after Pasqua mass & brunch in the piazza

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Did you get to Bécquer? I've been enjoying his stuff on folktales

https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina:Obras_de_B%C3%A9cquer_-_Vol._2.djvu/124 "Follow the movements of your heart, let your soul rise like the flame and the blue spirals of smoke. Woe to him who, having wings, descends into the depths to seek gold, when he could soar high to find love and...

Sam Kriss is talking about it: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/ideologies-of-the-near-future

Patty is much wiser & more helpful than you today

Lot of people seem to be asking this question recently, e.g. https://richdecibels.substack.com/p/towards-a-post-woke-synthesis "The liberals have become more authoritarian. They’ve become more repressive of dissent." I think a proper progressivism would re-embrace dissensus, and feel the...

I hung out at some cannaclubs! They mostly sold California gummies and prerolls. Maybe hit the wrong spot. Was well-reviewed alas. Friendly tho

The cantaor was Pere Martínez, who studied under Juan Gómez, and Marc Lopez was the tocaor

I met a Basque man, a luthier, who made gitaras, and he recommended 23 Robadors in Barcelona's old town, said he played there sometimes. I know little more than that.

I am only trying to say that I think "Above my paygrade" is a good stance for an employee of the world, and that we can't all be upper managers who steer the great global ship. That democracy works better at the municipal scale than the international scale. In Brazil often I felt that people...

Are the anagramic meanings just one example of the "exuberant excess" that all texts contain? Or

Can you help me to understand it?

Everywhere I go on the Continent. Young people are defacing beautiful marble with the words Free Palestine. Now I think what is happening in Palestine is horrific as does anyone with a heart but to make your own local space uglier cruder and more profane in an impotent screech against injustice...

Horrific things have always been happening, somewhere in the world, and the only thing that changed in the 20th C is global news networks, which do not have their viewers or readers interests at heart, but instead serve up a complex neurochemical cocktail, moreish as a proper drug Paying...

I think it's really unhealthy To me, the response to global postmodernism (ie a crisis of meanings) is a new localism Because when you get concrete and local, words and systems DO mean things, they ground out in real and consequential ways for the organisms that inhabit them Broke: Getting...

@version are you read up on stigmergy?

Time to hoist a castle into the sky

We are living in the Age of Will. The Age of Suspended Reason.

In some ways he and Elon are the ultimate tests of "deep state," meant loosely to include markets and all these sprawling systems of decentralized power that can stigmergically coordinate to enforce their interests. Can you in fact "just do things"? Or will "the system" keep you in line?