I am Sus. Gus is what people call me who want to be disrespectfulWho is Sus in that post?
What chapter of Birth of Tragedy should I readI see the "flattening" but I've always been sympathetic to that sort of criticism because especially in the age of the internet it's probably a good thing to have as many articulate people as possible helping young people attain and understand these heuristics. I read this post as basically a sparknotes of The Birth of Tragedy, but it might help a zoomer who's never even heard of Nietzsche come to an understanding of the concept. And it's ridiculous to act as if this flattening isn't the basic practice and ideal form of criticism. If everyone on substack and medium were writing like this I'd chalk that up as a net positive.
Version doesnt go outwhen i was in london, i felt that everyone i passed on the street had a .1% chance at being version
@other_life he said you have to talk about magicLet's talk more about magic
What us the fascination with magic its the apparent violation of physics. It is the experience of wonder
You will have to say more about this it is very ambiguously wordedIn some sciences they are discovering things that can't be scienced.
@other_life he said you have to talk about magic
its also about the mind reaching out to touch and transform things. shape them with an act of imagination. not operating on the material world through the clumsy body suit apparatus. but working as god does.
i dunno whaT that means sorrythis speaks to a view of magic as implicitly/prototypically materialist and atheist. because the emphasis is on shortcutting causal networks in order to align effect with desire; align desire with causality-as is-already the case, where both or either element is crucially 'occulted' before the pathworker makes their wonder
this speaks to a view of magic as implicitly/prototypically materialist and atheist. because the emphasis is on shortcutting causal networks in order to align effect with desire; align desire with causality-as is-already the case, where both or either element is crucially 'occulted' before the pathworker makes their wonder
i dunno whaT that means sorry