Ghiblification is yearning for an optimistic and enchanted worldview

The fact that this is news is itself extremely disturbing. The carefully manufactured information ecology in the US has left Americans in utter surprise when they finally clock whats really going on in the world.

The solution as with most problems is to rebuild a real dynamic industrial economy and force everyone to get a real job doing real meaningful work: x.com/mmjukic/status…

Reality is not computation any more than it was the calculus of a mechanical clock centuries ago. Let’s not confuse our technology with what our universe is, it’s a surefire way to close the future by stifling our ability to see beyond the dogmas of our time.

Reindustrialization will not mean sewing shoes in a sweatshop. It will mean crash courses in entrepreneurship and working with hardware, and lots of careers managing factories, designing physical products and infrastructure, and skilled labor working with robots. A real economy.

Wittgenstein, for Easter: "What inclines even me to believe in Christ’s Resurrection? It is as though I play with the thought. - If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave like any other man. *He is dead and decomposed*. In that case he is a teacher like

In his resurrection, the promised world to come is finally revealed as no other way than what had been in front of them all the time: the glorious figure of the Christ. This is why, when asked by Pilates, "What is truth?", the galilean went silent. The answer was in front of him.

One difference between the 20th and 21st centuries, is that now we simply no longer have the luxury of problems that can be solved through individual heroism. It's all systemic clusterfucks just waiting to crack open the tectonic plates and drop us right into the gullet of Hell.

Modern popular novels have less description of natural surroundings. They don’t describe travels through terrain of ‘jagged rock and pointed crags.’ They focus more on the minds of characters in humdrum activity and describe modern homes. Interacting with older novels (19th

coordination problems are collective identity problems

"It should never be forgotten that Christianity entered human history not as a new creed or sapiential path or system of religious observances, but as apocalypse ... an urgent call to all persons to come out from the shelters of social, cultic, and political association into a

Non-stop losing my mind over this video. I know they're actors but I don't think they are *that* good. I don't recall anyone being this light, this unselfconscious. I've been around dancers now (not actors) and normies and everyone is so aware of cameras. I feel smth was lost.

Politics becomes addictive because it mimics the structure of unresolved longing: it always promises catharsis, but never delivers. The next outrage is always required. The next enemy, the next identity, the next cause. Each moment appears urgent. None endure. We no longer look

I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that, like most articles on this topic, it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to

If I could recommend only one work in English to specifically understand the doctrine of Wahdat Al-Wujud in the school of Ibn ʿArabī It would have to be this essay by Sensei Izutsu

1/ How can I put this? "Expected utility maximizers don't maximize utility." Why? Because utility is not usually an ergodic quantity in the mathematical models used by economists, and maximizing its expected value doesn't mean much in the real world.

For the price of a few creaky airplanes outdated since the 1960s, Russia has been taught an unforgettable lesson in 21st century warfare and given the political capital to solve it. This is what is meant by "war is the health of the state."

Interesting thought to consider superficially "pro-capitalism" ideologues as Reverse-Marxism. They claim legitimacy by appealing to the purity and fairness of free market logic, but in practice support every unfair and bad government intervention if it's "good for business."

what we are living in is a world of cybernetic capitalism rather than any version of liberalism