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Yeah cause we ourselves take up too much of our own mental real estate. The fairest of them all.

A slow, eternal dissonance, wrapped in each other's embrace.

Mirrors caught in a feedback loop, perhaps.

This thread could one day be seen in hindsight as a formal turning point, a certain concession, the dematerialized completion of the revolutionary chiasmus: material win, material equalization, dematerialized equalization, dematerialized win. Don't question it. Its already been written.

The vanguard of the world historical spirit. The top of the champagne glass pyramid, receiving the divine downpouring, really an up-pouring, a self filling glass of eternal elixir.

We clearly enamor them. Tossing and turning in their sheets, it doesn't add up, it doesn't add up.

Extremophile, seeker of the extremity.

Would you say americans seem more prone to relying on these codes? Certainly wouldn;t surprise me, but then again I have no frame of reference.

Watched this last month, and the CSIS guy (edit: that is, James Lewis) mentioned how his friends/acquaintances in the Russian government told him they were surprised when the US did nothing to react to, or acknowledge, the Russian interference. It was a passing comment, but it was so low key it...

Don't worry, ourstory *ahem* history will continue to favor us.

@Linebaugh do you know what sarcasm is?

I don't even know what sarcasm is.

Summary of certain facets of the whole thing: -There is a need to elaborate a new learning regiment, an autodidactic program, which is better suited to the informational complexity of our world. -There is a need to establish territories for vulnerable conversations between conflicting belief...

@luka that said, if I'm unable to have a laugh, then I've lost. edit: in a particular and egoistic way, but seemingly also in a universal sense. The trick would be to harness these energies without granting them complete and compulsive control.

The hubristic nature of all this consists in a rising against the sheer complexity of our world. Lest some among us argue that I argue for submission to complexity. I do, but not without resistance. edit: infinite complexity, that is. Hence the hubris.

One axiom of this project is that an individuals outlook shouldn't be confined to the circumstances of the individual, and that what works on the individial level (first order) may not only not work as well on the collective level (the second order), but may even be detrimental. Just yesterday I...

Much of the autodidactic approach I'm taking consists of osmosis. Continual exposure to educational material that is beyond ones grasp. That, paired witht he kind of willful libidinization I've been talking about, seems to work well as a self-guided approach. One of the major hangups now, in...

So how does one willfully harness and steer the otherwise unconsciously operating libidinizing forces? Again, in the authoritarianism thread, I mentioned a sort of balancing act of phobia and philia, a willing-into-existence of a phobia away from X and a philia toward Y. It can also, at...

What would a "metaguide" consist of? Perhaps not a term I would stick with, but it would largely consist of a set of best practices, informed by the feedback of whoever cares to engage. As it is, my practices center around lectures on youtube. I've personally set the lower bound at 30 minutes...

Instead of starting a short lived thread entitled Independent Scholarship, I figured the thoughts could just as well go here. First, what are the thoughts on autodidacticism? I take it to involve a self-guiding education, which doesn't entail that one refuse the teachings of previous humans...