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I read that quote as sensitively saying, "If you rely on preestablished rules and metrics for your life, then tread lightly or don't tread at all." edit: "life" here also meaning sanity, stability, existential security, whatnot.

I don't think that self-determination always manifests in normative ways, because to do that you also need the necessary communicative skills, skills which aren't intrinsic to self-determination, I'm saying.

Well if it is as substantially helpful as it seems to us, then eventually it had to have occurred to them, provided they were clued in at all, no?

So does elitism just tend toward fascism then?

Well actually I had discarded it.

Again! I had "I'll return. Eternally."

I was just trying to adapt that line myself.

"Get to the signifier of the chopper!"

"You are one ugly performative subject!"

Any puns Arnie could have picked up from studying continental philosophy? Zingers he can deliver to his conquered foes in the quest for tenure? Figured I'd open the invitation.

Yeah, relying on symbols.

Any parallel to be drawn between increasing amounts of time traffic through scenarios where avatars and handles are encountered, and the trend of superheros? A sort of reprieve from complete accountability, in a way? But the other side of the coin is that your feedback-driven self-optimization...

That said yours does walk the line there, interestingly.

How does it scramble our interfacing ability when there is no face? A more purely abstract profiling.

You're supposed to be dematerializing, remember? Carnephobic.

The heideggarian concept of withstanding a dialectical process, biding it.

I've heard that name before, but I never know when to trust you regarding facts.

@luka how does Joe Rogan play into this notion of psychedelic fascism? Don't believe he's been mentioned. I even did a brief search, which is slightly better than my usual barging.

Basement Biden I think was on there. Doesn't really make sense but it procures a chuckle from me at least. Its no "Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown" which admittedly is really just playing the "crazy _____" card.

"Crazy ____" seems to have been a go-to. Like nothing better could be conceived.