Tattoos are like bodybuilding. They are refinement and elaboration, not backtracking. Tearing out some houses to put in high-rise apartment buildings or mass transit is backtracking, so the reactionaries get wound up about that. Frozen accidents form individual and group identity and can't be doubted -- way too big of a cognitive load. Faith is important as a distraction to genocidal behavior like manifest destiny. -----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2023 9:04 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America
I agree. Ever since this: https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-transgender-to-transhuman-a-manifesto-on-the-freedom-of-form-martine-rothblatt/8478365?ean=9780615489421 I've been swayed that the reactionary stance of the JK Rowlings of the world look similar to that of the Trumpists (or Tea Party people). But the R in TERF is supposed to stand for "radical", right? People like Rowling don't seem that radical to me. So, I'd prefer if we use the R in TERF to stand for reactionary. (Now the NeoRx crowd like Yarvin and whatnot. They do seem radical, even though reactionary is in their name ... radical reactionary, maybe?) On a similar note, I notice both very "left" seeming people and very "right" seeming people are into tattoos. The number of tattoos these days is enough that they would have been called "radical" body modifiers in the past. But now, to be radical, you have to do even more than piercing ... like you have to install metal pieces under the skin, or engage in decorative scarring to be thought of as radical ... maybe CRISPR your genome or eat nothing but Soylent. IDK. I can't imagine any kind of radical anyone who wasn't pro-trans. But, again, it's a field, not a particle zoo. On 12/28/23 08:37, Marcus Daniels wrote: > It seems one informative interstitial space is populated by the TERFs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2023 6:53 AM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America > > I thought about ... no, actually I crafted an entire post but deleted it ... > posting this in response to Roger's "good old sci fi" (GOSF) arc. It's a > fantastic TESCREAL narrative arc, reactive to such GOSF. And as allergic to > narrative as I am, I still think it's a good story: > > https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/ > > Plus, they use one of my favorite words: apotheosis. I get a distinct scent > of the feminist critique of artificial life [⛧] in there, somewhere ... a > kind of cynical us versus them vibe. But it's a vibe with which I often > resonate. Like Diogenes, I believe truth is found in the gritty interstitial, > not the lofty isolate. > > [⛧] Aggressively expressed as: artificial life is the (white|privileged) > man's attempt to appropriate women's ability to rear children ... given that > this list is prolly mostly (white|privileged) men, I can't help but wonder if > any reaction to that concept is, would be, can be, authentic, including my > own. But it's a bit sexist. Many women are fantastic analysts and can cut it > up and isolate as well or better than any man. So the argument against > TESCREAL isn't actually sexist. It just so happens to be that those of us who > inhabit gritty, interstitial spaces recognize the phenomena better than those > of us well ensconced in our silos. > > > On 12/27/23 15:28, Steve Smith wrote: >> When we invented gods in our own image we did a bad job, I'm not sure we are >> doing any better with the AI? Please gods, not in Elon's image! But hope >> springs infernal. -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
