The moral failing is letting the fog of fear take over, and fabricating any 
story that seems to work to rationalize it. The hate and fear of immigrants on 
the blue collar side is giving way to hate and fear of AI on the white collar 
side. 

From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of glen <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] mental imagery 

I love that we're sticking to the thread, but in a hermeneutic way. An 
inability to envision is akin to an inability execute Lean 4 code. If you don't 
have the hardware, you can't run the computation. The same could be said about 
entitled college students or the poor sods who've never benefited from a hero 
dose of Ψ. I credit Fanon for teaching me that relatively vapid things like the 
No Kings protest are inadequate for the victims of genocide. Perhaps Israel was 
destined to be genocidal. "For if the last shall be first, this will only come 
to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists."

Steve's use of "conceit" often confuses me. If I replace it with "controlling 
idea" ... or, better, "occult controlling idea", then it seems like agency is 
*the* conceit of our modern times. Framing one's inability to compute as a 
moral failing feels akin to blaming the victim. But what choice do we have? We 
absolutely must, and always do, blame the victim. Right? If you're aphantasic, 
then it's clearly because you're too lazy to put in the effort.

On 11/26/25 8:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Rather the IP has some defensive function at the population level for 
> protecting valuable things from a population that values nothing beyond their 
> own comfort.

On 11/26/25 8:15 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> I mean, yeah, preach on. For some it's nothing more than a Holiday in 
> Cambodia.

On 11/26/25 7:53 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On the other hand, we might (also?) just be apes picking nits out of one 
> another's furry thoughts? Which is it's own mode of coercion/engagement?
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