Stories
for filtration or for fertilisation?
A story in realtime1, responsively weaved from this wee tale told well:
Escape from the Narrative Matrix
In the interests of
all edits of the original, unfiltered, uncompressed signal have been noted.
Your support for the distribution of free literature2 will never cease to be a real good story. Tell it to your children, and to their children too!
8:11 I may have written a thing about not 'outsourcing' one's 'narrative filter'... I suggested it may be possible to use one's values as a narrative filter actually.... 8:13 i might even say it is deMONSTERably dangerous to use the stories of one's tribe as the narrative filter for 'truth'. 8:15 like Ursula K LeGuin, my utopian dream is of a society based upon consent. 8:15 free expression, informed consent, bodily autonomy, self-determination... 8:16 diversity 8:18 To tune the filter, I think the very best thing to do is to talk to other people, especially people that have 'values' that on first glance are completely different 8:19 I suspect that 'bodily autonomy' is not the only value apparently deeply held by each of the 'two sides', as they tell two completely different stories about what this means 8:20 diversity 8:23 In a world of stories, this means 'consent' will be only available to those that believe the correct stories. 8:24 Those 'others' are 'misinformed', so we can tell stories about why their consent is not required 8:27 Until we believe the story that tells us that there is no 'them' at all, only us and all our stories, interwoven, intertwined, intertangled, not really separate at all... 8:27 non-binary, if you will 8:27 We are well and truly fucked 8:29 Diversity and Equity 8:29 If we are all 'equal' to another... 8:29 a=a 8:31 And only 'a' are the real people...... 8:31 wherefore diversity? 8:31 a=a 8:31 A=A 8:31 now A in fact might be 8:31 nature 8:31 us 8:31 them 8:33 a sort of magic unity that actually contains multitudes 8:33 diversity as fractal dichotomy 8:33 axes spinning off in all directions (edited) 8:35 I suppose whether these are spinning centers of what makes us whole 8:36 or hatchets chopping us apart 8:36 is not yet decided 8:41 AM or 8:42 up in the air 8:42 if you will 8:44 and I wonder 8:45 if whether one should duck and cover 8:45 hold on 8:45 safe from the blast 8:46 (the radiation maybe not so much) (edited) 8:46 or one might become still 8:47 soak in the rays of radiated warmth 8:47 like a flower in a field 8:47 of sunshine 8:48 OR......(and?) (edited) 8:48 I wonder if this has anything to do 8:48 with the stories we tell
NOTES:
English gives us lots of options… choose your weapons3 well!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/axes
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/axis#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ax#English
I am particularly fond of:
Ar try who'l ax em the hardest riddle
O! were I able to articulate that most querulous of axes! How might I spin so!
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Well, is it really, or was it ever so?
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axes all!