Lockdown 2.0
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IdleRich
IdleRich
I think the psychological fx of this are much like the economic, still slightly hidden but bubbling under, unavoidably going to be long term and serious...
Another insane rule I should have mentioned is a max of two in an uber. Three of us come out of a place together, we are one group, we have mingled already, we are sitting in the back not near the driver... makes no sense whatsoever.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Mourinho demands public rising!
not really
not really
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I suppose ulterior motives can't be ruled out, but I doubt even the keenest and greenest (in both senses) environmentalists seriously think a lockdown is going to have any real positive impact on climate change. And "lockdown insurance" only gets you so far - it certainly doesn't undo the general effect of economic harm. The situation this year has affected Richard Branson and Tim Martin as well as ordinary people (although it goes without saying that they've gamed the system with cheap loans of public money, etc.)
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IdleRich
IdleRich
The most turgid and uninspiring rising of all time.
Only the “loud minority” oppose lockdown restrictions | YouGov
There is no evidence to suggest that polling is undercounting those who don’t support anti-coronavirus measures
yougov.co.uk
I hate being right.
www.theguardian.com
National Covid lockdown expected across England next week
Boris Johnson bows to pressure from experts who warned worst-case scenario could soon be surpassed
www.theguardian.com
I hate being right.
National Covid lockdown expected across England next week
Boris Johnson bows to pressure from experts who warned worst-case scenario could soon be surpassed
Grim. It'll roll right over Christmas too, surely?
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Lough Neagh is doing grand.
constant escape
winter withered, warm
Could be a reason to shoot for the digital stars, to dematerialize unto Valhalla.
In all seriousness, if we think about what separated the Old Normal from the New Normal, it might just have need a certain tug. Tugged by who? This is where I differ from the conspiracy oriented, who attribute humanity to the force doing the tugging, one cabal or another.
But it isn't humanity going the tugging - humanity just learns to channel the forces, interpret them, capitulate to them, imperfectly. Loss of information, or rather an imperfect and exhaustible processing of it. Because we cannot process a higher ontology than our own, we resort to understanding it in terms of our own ontology, the highest we know.
And I believe we can effectively think of such things as brands, ideologies, and trends as higher order phenomena, things that are so complex as to take our own complexity as its point of departure, the point from which it moves.
So the physical body of one such higher order phenomenon, the internet, does not need to exceed ours in complexity.
I haven't looked into the hardware architecture of the internet, with transoceanic fiber optic cables and whatever, but I doubt it comes anywhere near the human body in terms of physical complexity.
And this difference spans orders of magnitude of variation across information storage capacity, processing speeds - the space/time analog of the digital, no?
And across that difference, critical concatenations lay nascent in future limbo, awaiting to be realized, awaiting to spread. What is so shocking about pointing out the functions that float higher than us, that move faster than us, that seem unbound to such mundane constraints as locality? Need we praise them as if they were Gods, each one, or can we just diligently study them?
And how different is a praising from a diligent studying?
In all seriousness, if we think about what separated the Old Normal from the New Normal, it might just have need a certain tug. Tugged by who? This is where I differ from the conspiracy oriented, who attribute humanity to the force doing the tugging, one cabal or another.
But it isn't humanity going the tugging - humanity just learns to channel the forces, interpret them, capitulate to them, imperfectly. Loss of information, or rather an imperfect and exhaustible processing of it. Because we cannot process a higher ontology than our own, we resort to understanding it in terms of our own ontology, the highest we know.
And I believe we can effectively think of such things as brands, ideologies, and trends as higher order phenomena, things that are so complex as to take our own complexity as its point of departure, the point from which it moves.
So the physical body of one such higher order phenomenon, the internet, does not need to exceed ours in complexity.
I haven't looked into the hardware architecture of the internet, with transoceanic fiber optic cables and whatever, but I doubt it comes anywhere near the human body in terms of physical complexity.
And this difference spans orders of magnitude of variation across information storage capacity, processing speeds - the space/time analog of the digital, no?
And across that difference, critical concatenations lay nascent in future limbo, awaiting to be realized, awaiting to spread. What is so shocking about pointing out the functions that float higher than us, that move faster than us, that seem unbound to such mundane constraints as locality? Need we praise them as if they were Gods, each one, or can we just diligently study them?
And how different is a praising from a diligent studying?
This should be the title of your blog, if you ever make one.
And this should be the title of Corpsey's.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
That's weird, was going to describe ZF as akin to entering the hall of Valhalla half hour ago.
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luka
Well-known member
you poted that at 1.23
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
the same time i read the Valhalla quote, being hunted by the number virus
constant escape
winter withered, warm
If I had to make a pitch to a board of postmodern fascist occultists, this would be the gist. Could happen.