The Reality War
The battle lines need to be redrawn.
The Reality War.
The world is not as it seems. Certainly not for me, but I am becoming brave enough to say this more assertively.Most of us are caught in a literal magic spell. Literally. For realsies, yo. It’s just that people have a disagreement about what “magic” is. ¶ We are blind to the real problems facing us — an inability to reconcile thousands upon thousands of years of history, ideology, science and philosophy (aka religion) in a very short period of time, geologically speaking. ¶ We are all biased towards the complex networks of systems we adopt and change over the course of our life, beginning with the…
Cory CaplanMar 18
iBurnout
This morning, I received a couple of anonymous emails taking me to task about my life choices, and my public discussion of them — all but…asking me to kill myself. ¶ This person is right about so many things, but missing the point. ¶ I know I’m a failure. I know I am awful in many, many ways. ¶ But weirdly, this person is illustrating exactly the problem in this Brave New World — rather than confronting me directly, they sent me a completely anonymous note, putting me “on blast.” ¶ Then, when I asked if this was a discussion, they replied with a “no.”Cory CaplanApr 5
Are you OUT THERE? (Are YOU out there?) [Are you OUT there?] {Are you out THERE?}
A thought crossed my mind as I ripped through the piece of glutinous wheat bread I was vigorously masticating. (Damn your dirty mind, pay…attention.) ¶ One of my theories is that we experience time very differently as humans, and this is represented through personality differences and concepts such as the divine masculine and divine feminine — spacetime geometry is personality is cognition. ¶ This, of course, is nearly impossible to prove, because if the theory is basically “we are a cybernetic organic uncertainty device where the whole point is kind of ‘nothing can ever be completely known’ the very idea that this whole thing…Cory CaplanMar 18