It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? We’ve been up to it for decades. Trying, desperately, passionately, intelligently, carefully, recklessly, beautifully, to try and have everyone be treated just like they are someone with no alternative attractions. We try and try we try, and we succeed, and we fail, and we fail, and succeed, andContinue reading “THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 8/22/21 – THE HETERO-NORMATIVE ECSTASY (FIRE WITH FIRE)”
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THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 8/20/21- The Kamehameha Kid
I was going outside the other day….I heard a child screaming vigorously. He must have been the child of one of the men working at the grocery store. Upon closer inspection, he was imitating Goku, you know, from Dragon Ball Z. Firing out that energy blast. Having his friend fall down. Connected, but not connected,Continue reading “THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 8/20/21- The Kamehameha Kid”
The One-Bite-Into-Other-Half-of-a-Sandwich Theorem- THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 4/20/21
This world we live would be a better place if everyone could simply deconstruct the moment in which a person, eating at Subway or what have you, having finished half of their sandwich, comes to the juncture of either eating a little more of the second half of the sandwich, or resisting and not proceedingContinue reading “The One-Bite-Into-Other-Half-of-a-Sandwich Theorem- THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 4/20/21”
L1’s Almanac – Why Trying to be Socially Competent is Like a Game Show Where You Jump Through Stupid Foam Cutouts
Have you seen the game show Hole in the Wall? People have to fits themselves through a space in a wall that is supposedly made just for them as it glides down an alley, or else you are dumped into the water. It’s a show that makes me smile, so silly, so endearing. But why?Continue reading “L1’s Almanac – Why Trying to be Socially Competent is Like a Game Show Where You Jump Through Stupid Foam Cutouts”
[Purpose-Result Friction] Theory Triple Pack – Tetris Metaphysics, The Mystique of Gravy, and the Futility in Calling Someone a Baby
1. Falling Blocks, Wielding Fates The way people view their own actions resembles that which we feel when we play a puzzle video game like Panel De Pon or Tetris. The way the blocks fall is often very out of your control, while also being a byproduct of what you’ve done within that game. TheContinue reading “[Purpose-Result Friction] Theory Triple Pack – Tetris Metaphysics, The Mystique of Gravy, and the Futility in Calling Someone a Baby”
Little Jams: Rural Niceness, Urban Niceness
The hospitality of rural people is something very real but it might be empowered by not having to interact with people in ways that are inherently inconvenient. Those of us in the city really are some grouches but the way we get along Is really quite legitimate. All of us are challenged by and givenContinue reading “Little Jams: Rural Niceness, Urban Niceness”
L1’s Almanac – You Wouldn’t Cringe at an Animal
Animals can induce many of the same emotions in us that humans do. But you wouldn’t cringe at one, would you? It’s hard to a feel a mix of embarrassment and resentment for an animal. What’s so different about them? They can’t have fondness for what you want to do, relate to what you wishContinue reading “L1’s Almanac – You Wouldn’t Cringe at an Animal”
The Epilogue: Why All Fiction Is Exactly the Same (WORLD EXPLAINED AND KINDNESS REMAINS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJIby5NJ48 Do you want to know something? All fiction is the same, exactly the same. There is only one exception. Purely informational fiction for very small children, or perhaps for the learning of language. You’ll learn what a tree is and basically nothing else. So many cartoons for toddlers do this. But what is allContinue reading “The Epilogue: Why All Fiction Is Exactly the Same (WORLD EXPLAINED AND KINDNESS REMAINS)”
I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level
If you take a look back in time, inside your philosophy textbooks, you’ll find that one of the big topics is virtue. Those people talked a lot about what virtue is, how to acquire it, whether it has value. However, one of the big controversies about virtue was that…..you could never prove if someone hadContinue reading “I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level”
Undulant Rave: The Feeling of Holding a Book In Your Hand (The World’s Reborn With My Next Blog Post)
A pretty long time ago, I was on an internet forum. The topic had come to “things robots will never understand”. One person said this: The feeling of holding a book in your hand after finishing it. When I heard that, I could feel a giant valley of determination welling up from within me. LikeContinue reading “Undulant Rave: The Feeling of Holding a Book In Your Hand (The World’s Reborn With My Next Blog Post)”
The Found Emotion (Invoke Yourself) 