Reality through social imagination.
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"ultra-coordinated motherfuckary."
Anon
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"There is a certain logic to this progression: first, a select group of manufacturers transcend their connection to earthbound products, then, with marketing elevated as the pinnacle of their business, they attempt to alter marketing’s social status as a commercial interruption and replace it with seamless integration."
Unknown
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More shades were here than anywhere above, and from both sides, to the sounds of their own screams, straining their chests, they rolled enormous weights.
And when they met and clashed against each other they turned to push the other way, one side screaming, “Why hoard?,” the other side, “Why waste?”
"Dante, Divine Comedy
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"The pre-Protestant churchmen understood work, “toil,” as punishment. In medieval visionary literature that speaks to the churchmen’s images of Hell, the implements of labor fully reveal their true nature as instruments of torture: sinners are punished with hammers and other tools. What’s more, according to these visions, there is in Hell an even more cruel torture than the directly inflicted physical one: perennial toil, When the devout brother Brendan saw, in the sixth century, a worker on his visit to the beyond, he immediately ade the sign of the cross: he realized that he had arrived where all hope must be abandoned."
Pekka Himanen
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"Emergent large-scale behaviour is nothing new. How do you intend to control individual behaviour of a large population of only partially rational agents? They don’t come with too many convenient behaviour-modifying hooks (pheromones as in social insects, but notice menarche-synch in females sharing quarters), and for a good reason. The few hooks we have (mob, war, politics, religion) have been notoriously abused, already. Analogous to apoptosis, metaindividuals may function using processes deletorious[sic] to its components (us)."
Eugen Leitl
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
