Comments on: 2014 Lessons (#2)

By: soapjackal

soapjackal — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:00:51 +0000

>The chronic NRx call for ‘action’ is a symptom of malnourishment

The call for action is actually a good one. Now pressing someone on what that means is very important. Action is “what needs to be done?.” not “what revolution do we need to host?”

youre right. People are hungry. Its sort of the result of peddling a series of certain intuitions as an ideology. Teaching people to feed themselves would be ‘too difficult.’

All is well though. NRx accidentally assumed they would be the best thoughts in case a collapse did happen. I notice no one has seriously dwelled on that potentiality. Perhaps 2015 will have that discussion.

By: The Electric Philosopher

The Electric Philosopher — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:35:21 +0000

I read ‘Outside’ as ‘Unknown,’ to put it simply. And, thus, we might remember a remark of the good Mr Land in one of the abstract horror posts- to paraphrase: horror is the only genre to preserve the unknown as the unknown. We might suggest that the Outside, approached with this in mind, can be viewed also as the ‘undecided,’ as potential for novel, daring New Things And Ways which might not make us comfortable. Perhaps the Outside ultimately isn’t suited for us, but for something we’re making way for…

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2014 Lessons (#2) | Reaction Times — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:20:48 +0000

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By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:12:35 +0000

Ah. By ‘outside’ you perhaps mean the place where I keep intuiting all the sensible people went. Only, you seem to assume it’s horrible whereas I find it beautiful. (Well, you seem to assume it’s both.) I’ve some messages from that side, they seem nice to me.

(Do note connotation of ‘intuit.’)