I had the pleasure of coming across this post on Neurotypicality- by Robert Chapman (they/them) at their lovely blog at - a rather in depth blog that I assume I will enjoy digging into more - however reposting

A short transcription vid that contains, starting at the 5:45 mark, a description of the strange universe of the "conservative" - pondered on previously here. I felt some of the points briefly

Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis - Negation Whatever you say, whatever you do, you can sell it as a wisdom.

Lacan Left - PomoTrads This podcast on PomoTrads is the first that put Matt McManus on the map for me as figure- I feel like his concept here pretty much nails this kind of thing for me. I find his description

I'm not Realistic I am Cinematic. Proto-Real Cinematic Materialism - introduction to visual poetry through Tarkovsky A more proto realistic level- autonomy of cinematic forms-form communicating, reverberating,

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A collection on the topic of Neurodiversity

Are are all relations equally politicized in an age of oligarchy? Is there no right to conscientious objection? Equal politicization is a fraud- when your opinion is but a tear falling in a storm. Politicians

I laughed at this little bit - of course the idea this inevitably leads to a certain conclusion strikes me as silly, but overall he is not wrong about the main point.. I intend to post more on this topic

Tacking onto my last post on comprehensive freedom- lets explore a particular aspect of what this looks like. Freedom as a subject in metaphysics, which is really just a technical term for first principle

Political Vs Comprehensive Libertarianism I'll link this article on "Thick vs Thin" libertarians- in which some writer at reason mag runs through the argument that its okay to be just a political

Positive vs Negative Liberty - William Gillis Just some reactions I had listening to this, which seemed worthy of wider reading- The brain does not just think in a linear way- the brain is in some sense

Despair Fatigue I've been scratching down complaints in a notepad about conservative politics and culture for nearly over half a year intending to write a post - despite the fact this scratch pad is at

Examining the movie "Interstellar" - Showing the collaboration between Nolan and Zimmer to build the unique world and aesthetic/philosophy of the movie. Nolan's world building and visual grammar

Transcendentalism - Revolution Through Nature. A definitive school of thought in early America with wide ranging influence even today. Setting the scene - Puritan Calvinist and their beliefs in early America

The work above speaks for itself regarding the Transcendental style of Lynch and gives a better sense of it as a philosophy, a philosophy that prefers to be art and aesthetic rather - toward the end an

Curtains: Cinema as a vehicle for entering another world. Stories and cinema are vehicles for abstractions - each viewer can generate their own sense of things. It is desire which generates ideas- and

The Medium is the Message - Digital Prophecies

The Californian Ideology: I agree with alot of this and the grand sweep of his vision of this is very informative with a fantastic knowledge of recent history- nevertheless one part of it, a core part

Listened to this a few months back and its stuck with me as really smart analysis and frame that shakes up 20th century era labels/notions about how to analyze economics - by pointing out how technology