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Physic defense in the digital age
Oct 27, 2024Society writ large has chosen convience of information. It's a reasonable choice on the face of it, the internet provides a direct link between the individual and a huge body of the works of humanity. It provides a link between the minds of all invididuals throughout the world. However for the most part, that information flows in one direction, from the world into the mind of the individual: from the macro to the micro. And with access to rare books once only available in locked rooms of scattered physical libraries across the world, comes also advertisements, social media, and weapons of manipulation and psychic control.
The Shape of Evil and the Man behind the Mask
A Moment of Halloween 5
Jan 13, 2024Michael Meyers is Evil. That is what we are told at least, by the characters of the Halloween franchise and by the text of the films themselves. Indeed, it is one of the largest constants throughout the films. When Michael, whose face we rarely see, enters the same scene as someone who isn't Laura Strode, we generally expect that person to die. And that is often the only reason we get as to why Michael kills them, they're there.
Inward to Nothing: Outward to Will
May 3, 2023To what end do I suffer? To what end do I struggle? Ends, ends, so consumed I am with ends, even though everything seems to always be only starting. The path is always yet to be taken, the road yet to be walked, decisions yet to be made. Maybe I've always had an issue of dedication, or commitment. Sometime someplace I had written a reminder to myself: "Dedication is the start of the will!" But do I have the dedication to follow any reminder to myself? How can I, if the answer to for what do I suffer, for what do I struggle, is still empty, blank?
For intention, against media
Hope against a fatal disease
Jan 20, 2022There is today a great dearth of intention, of thinking.
Not that there is a dearth of education or higher learning, there is plenty of availability of that (leaving aside the trouble of equitable access), or even reasoning, but I speak rather of the thinking in the day to day, when making a decision to, for example, walk to the fridge in the evening to open it to find nothing of interest, knowing beforehand of course that there was not going to be anything of interest. And in the decision then to wander without intention from that fridge to something unrelated, hunger unsated, as there was no hunger. The fridge and the falsely promised eating, consumption, was never an eating with the purpose of sating hunger, or even for the pure joy of eating, it was an eating borne out of absence. An absence of intention, an absence of knowing what to do, an absence of true action.
The Necroscholastic
Jun 10, 2020I am not a scholastic. I am a necroscholastic. The scholars of our traditions and histories, those upon which we are expected to comment or expound (and today there is really only commentary) does not need to be reconciled with anything, but rather resurrected. Born again in our own image. It is not my intention to be particular to the intention of any author — which was the vanity of the neoplatonists to reconcile Plato and Aristotle, which was the vanity of the positivists to incorporate the mystical Wittgenstein into themselves — but rather to construct my own meaning, my own figure of the past.
The Dashboard
Its Etymology and Function
Feb 3, 2020When hearing the word "dashboard", perhaps two definitions spring to mind. The first and most common is the dashboard of a car, with its instruments that provide important but secondary information. The primary information being that which is on the road itself, as of course it is more important when one is driving that they do not hit the other cars on the road, rather than obey the speed limit to the specific digit. The other definition is the dashboard of a web app or similar, which provides some condensed information about some system or service so that it can be monitored. How truly useful that information is in a specific dashboard is variable, many professionals relying heavily on some specific dashboard, others being keenly aware that such-and-such a dashboard is utterly useless.