Tag: epsilon-theory
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Welcome to The Continental. We Do Hope You Enjoy Your Stay.
But there is a way to live. We live as humans with an autonomy of mind. We step back in order to see the semantic system as puppeteer. And from that vantage point of critical distance, we reapply our disbelief to ALL constructed worlds of declared reality, no matter how appealing to our internal dialogs,…
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This is the Great Ravine
You are forced to respond in kind if the other side escalates the narrative attacks, like using mustard gas in World War I, until eventually the entire game breaks because the anger you’ve created can’t be contained by the rules of the game. And that’s when you are well and truly in the Great Ravine.…
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So What, Now What?
As always, Ben’s note is sharp and on the surface feels like the right read of the situation. For someone skilled and informed below the surface, I’m sure there’s a lot more moving parts but taking it at face value its contents concern me. Greatly. I just think it’s time to get serious and see…
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Crashing the Car of Pax Americana
“You cannot unring this bell. Sure, you can reverse this policy and that policy, and god knows we’re going to get plenty of that, but you can never go back to the way things were before. Once you toss over the game table, even if you reset the table exactly as it was before, the…