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Even if you haven’t accepted that they’re out there yet, people are seeing something. And Jung knew that was significant. Huge shouts to Jai for sending me this.
Mar 23, 2021
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This book was recommended to me by the discerning Chris Gabriel who makes videos under the name Meme Analysis. It’s a pulpy “nonfiction” account of Keel’s investigation into eyewitness reports of the mothman in the late 1960s. Stories of the unexplained (ghosts, visions, conspiracies) are best when they play on the stranger-than-fiction truths of real life. Whether or not the events in this book actually happened, Keel’s stories are so unique and eerie in their specificity that the truth they suggest is undeniable: “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?” Must it???
Apr 4, 2024
Really interesting interdisciplinary speculative science book about the development of human intelligence, written in a lovely prosaic voice that makes it accessible to and engaging for anyone. There have been significant scientific advancements that add nuance and complexity to some of the ideas he discusses but it’s still useful as a conceptual framework for understanding and it’s interesting to see the conclusions he was able to draw with his brilliant mind based off of the limited information that was available at the time. He raises a lot of thought provoking questions—its greatest value is as a philosophical text—and I think it’s still more than worth your time to read today.
“As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working well. We do not live in traditional and static societies. But our government, in resisting change, act as if we did. Unless we destroy ourselves utterly, the future belongs to those societies that, while not ignoring the reptilian and mammalian parts of our being, enable the characteristically human components of our nature to flourish; to those societies that encourage diversity rather than conformity; to those societies willing to invest resources in a variety of social, political, economic and cultural experiments, and prepared to sacrifice short-term advantage for long-term benefit; to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.”
Jan 14, 2025
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dude who wrote 2001. I dunno what to say except that it is one of the best sci-fi pieces or art i'v ever consumed.i like sci-fi as analogy / modern mythology. the most popular political critiques like star wars and matrix are subliminally about issues swept under the rug in mainstream discourse, but allowed and celebrated in fantasy setting, we see it explode with popularity.with real life or non-fiction we like to pretend things we don't like aren't happening, but we can face them in sci-fi.
May 30, 2023
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I’ll try to sum it up quick: 82 year old guy in poor health goes completely missing without a trace while on a hunting trip with his son while sitting in a chair in the middle of the woods. He had a rifle and walkie talkie with him. No sign of him, the rifle, or the walkie talkie. No footprints, tire tracks, etc. One of the guys on the trip said he heard a strange noise he couldn’t describe. That’s all they got. This plays into a larger phenomenon known as Missing 411- I would encourage anyone reading to go down this rabbit hole that I can’t even begin to sum up here.
Mar 23, 2021
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Even though I felt as lost as Gene Hackman’s character at times, I liked it that way. A movie you really feel as much as follow.
Mar 23, 2021
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Best and most versatile set in the biz. Really all you need.
Mar 23, 2021