Sunday, August 31, 2025
Quan Titties
I had this realization doing my usual OCD meander through BBC archival stuff.
Phrenology represented the skull as a specific map the topography of which told a story about the attributes of the person.
https://imgur.com/nH6IvIz
Today's 3d capture technology is a coordinate map that tells a story to a computer about your body's attributes rendered as a 'digital asset,' which will be required in order for you to float around as a formality of being a jobless entity with citizenship in some tech-hole's dead-mall VR sim.
https://imgur.com/AVlzWem
I'm a cursed visionary. I need my I-phones plucked out by birds, which aren't real.
Shaman Lesko
Part of a series of unsent e-mails to two former colleagues in higher ed.
#001
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Law and God in civilization (according to Toynbee)
"This pair of concepts—a ubiquitous and irresistible law and a unique and omnipotent deity—will be found at the heart of almost every representation of the Universe that has ever taken shape in human minds in the social environment of a universal state; but a survey of these cosmologies will show that they tend to approximate to one or other of two distinct types. There is one type in which Law is exalted at the expense of God and another in which God is exalted at the expense of Law; and we shall find that the emphasis on Law is characteristic of the philosophies of the dominant minority, while the religions of the internal proletariat incline to subordinate the majesty of the Law to the omnipotence of God. However, the distinction is only a matter of emphasis; in all these cosmologies both concepts are to be found, co-existing and interwoven, whatever their respective proportions may be" (pp. 565-566).
In Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History: Volume One (Abridged Version)