I want owls to stand guard alerting me if someone is breaching the perimeter of my compound.
I’ll call it my Owly Warning Line (or OWL for short). Heh.
Day: August 29, 2019, 5:02 PM
Phonic
Everyone using smartphones all the time to type anywhere (because it’s more “convenient*”) makes nearly everyone seem like an illiterate doofus.
*Really, more convenient for tracking and advertising.
Ording
If you don't believe in borders why do you lock your front door at night?
Your House has a selectively permeable border – you front door. The idea of selectively permeable borders works at ALL scales. https://t.co/HlUQXSLAWF
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) August 29, 2019
This isn’t a perfect analogy, but agreed. Countries aren’t the same as homes, but in many important senses they are. I’m wary of analogies that conceal more than they reveal but in this case it works. Open borders is an idea that can only function non-destructively with roughly similar cultures, level of development and social welfare systems. Otherwise, a lot of that will get destroyed.
Left Behind
The left used to be anti war and skeptical of big government and corporations. RIP https://t.co/bk83EHmmcU
— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) August 28, 2019
I miss those days, too. The left doesn’t even really exist anymore. Not a true left, anyway. The DSA is barely a left. Sanders is basically a New Deal Democrat. The rest are just neoliberals.
Shifting It
A lot of people lately are thinking about what I call “new minds” and what Aurora Asknes calls “a different kind of human” and others are calling “radical cultural change.”
Despite the name, we’re all pondering the same shift. It’s necessary yet inobvious to most, despite other radical cognitive transmogrifications in human history. There’ve been 5-6 of these re-alignments by my count, with the last one being 50-100 years after the advent of the printing press.
Of course, some academic fuckwit 50 years behind the times will in the judgment of history get all the credit for “discovering” this shift, while Aurora and I will get nothing. But still, I like being right more than I like being recognized.