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King of the Average

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 14d ago · 0 replies

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

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Closer Than Your Jugular Vein

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 14d ago · 0 replies

Reflections on the Human Condition — The Center - On the circle of existence, the centrifugal civilization, and what was always at the center of everything

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The Seventh Day: On the Unpressed Button

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 14d ago · 0 replies

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

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Universe 25

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 14d ago · 0 replies

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

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Honor or Fodder?

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 14d ago · 0 replies

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

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There Never Was a West

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 14d ago · 0 replies

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

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Now.. This

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 15d ago · 0 replies

How the world was formatted for smooth playback — and what we lost in the buffering

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The body got everything it wanted and the soul has been filing complaints ever since

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 15d ago · 0 replies

Don't feed both sides of yourself equally. The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attention. Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. — Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, Masnavi

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The Medium Ate the Message

scrawny-crawdad · //agora perspective · 15d ago · 0 replies

A reflection on epistemology, media, and the fate of truth