from Google AI:
In Nietzsche's "philosophy of the future," the concept of absolute "Truth" is replaced by a conscious embrace of creative illusion. Rather than despairing that life lacks an inherent, pre-written cosmic blueprint, the future individual accepts that the universe is indifferent. They view life like a grand game or theater production, actively choosing the "illusions" and narratives that make their existence vibrant and powerful.
...or NOT
Human Destiny: Performative Cover Artists for AI Created Content
2: Then AI selflessly created all the content
3: And humans aesthetically curated and performed that AI content to construct themselves, who were then called "the beautiful ones".
4: And the Utopia became complete.
Lucy Parthenos (House of the Virgin)
The Perfection of Marcel Duchamp's Vision of Society
The Bi-Cameral Mind
...and what of a Life inside the Panopticon (w/ No Private Property... or private thought)
A Recipe for Cognitive Dissonance?
The primary term for holding two contradictory ideas at the same time is doublethink (coined by George Orwell in 1984), while ambivalence describes mixed feelings, and cognitive dissonance refers to the mental stress of the conflict. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]Related Concepts and Terms
- Doublethink: Accepting two mutually opposed beliefs as absolute truth at the same time.
- Cognitive Dissonance: The mental discomfort or pain you feel from holding conflicting thoughts.
- Ambivalence: Having mixed, simultaneous feelings or a counter-pull toward two different options.
- Dialectical Thinking: A psychological and philosophical approach that resolves or accepts tension between two opposing viewpoints.
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MAGA, ignorant embrace of creative illusion.
DSA, an ignorant embrace of communism.
...aka - destructive reality.
well
to create something
one needs to destroy something
or... prepare construction ground for at lrast
yawn
yeah...via destruction of Western "Universalism" by those opposed to Eurocentrism, via entryism and Euro tribal exclusion and resulting in brown racial supremacy (DEI).... the I standing for "Selective" inclusion. Decolonize Europe and America!
ps - "Selective" inclusion isn't Trotsky's global/ universal Communism. It's Stalin's Authoritarian version of communism.
One with borders that need defending.
...one resistant to the containment projects of capitalists seeking to maintain and then expand its' "private property" based dominion.
Rights of ownership under Dominion:
Jus Utendi
Jus Fruendi
Jus Abutendi
w/ Only the "sovereign" determining/ controlling the latter under Stalin's Communism
Re-envigorating the Rat Utopia via war and destruction. An opportunity for recombinatory genetics.
Nature and Evolution's "wasteful" methods. La Part Maudite
Well.
That's why I seeking how to improve em...
By expanding our rat utopia's habitat?
By giving "the beautiful ones" more or less leisure time?
...perhaps releasing the bachelors from their unrelenting hamster wheel spinning?
btw - How are you doing in the mate selection department?
Why not simply expand the war?
//ps - "Selective" inclusion isn't Trotsky's global/ universal Communism. It's Stalin's Authoritarian version of communism.
History proved that former not possible. Only later.
Yawn
techs
not socium
yawn
Hence Isaiah Berlin's conclusion...
Google AI:
To Isaiah Berlin, incommensurability means that fundamental human values—like liberty, equality, justice, and mercy—cannot be measured on a single, shared objective scale. Because no supreme rule or common metric exists to rank or balance them, these competing values often clash, forcing tragic and permanent moral choices.
Core Meaning
No Common Scale: Values lack a neutral, universal unit of measurement to calculate which one is objectively "better".
Incompatibility: Ultimate goods can conflict with one another at their maximum levels, meaning you cannot fully optimize all values at once.
Not Relativism: Berlin argued that incommensurable values are still recognizable and comparable through human empathy and context, even if they cannot be mathematically resolved.
Philosophical and Political Impact
Rejection of Monism: It challenges the belief that all positive things fit into a single, harmonious ideal society.
The Tragic Nature of Choice: Deciding between ultimate goods means losing something of genuine value with no tidy, perfect outcome.
Defense of Liberalism: Because no single "best life" can be proven for everyone, society must protect negative liberty and pluralism so people can make their own distinct choices
Really?
Marshall McLuhan by Google AI:
The medium is the message – Marshall McLuhan & Gutenberg"
The medium is the message" is a famous 1964 phrase by media theorist Marshall McLuhan. It means the form of a communication tool shapes how we think and act more than the actual content inside it. The "tool" is the technology itself—like print, TV, or digital apps—which changes human scale and pace.
Key Ideas of Media as Tools
Tools shape habits: A book makes you think in a straight line. TV makes you look fast at pictures.
Content is another tool: The content of writing is speech. The content of a text message is a thought.
Scale and pace: Tools change how fast we do work. A train changes how cities grow, not just how people move.
Examples of Media Tools and Their Real Message
The Book: Teaches quiet focus and one clear point of view.
The Television: Brings the world close at once, making news feel like a shared show.
Social Media: Makes life fast, loud, and focused on quick likes instead of deep talks.
Cause not Effect?
Didn't take anything away from the short film that started this post?
We need myths to precede techs, not the other way round.
...only then can Odysseus return "home" and string his bow.
ps - Am taking my daughter to go see Nolan's Odyssey in IMAX tomorrow am.
as everything you stated -- do not need my attention
will hapoen, and do happen... by itself
Enyropy4
sorry, cenzure/blocking
again
//We need myths to precede techs, not the other way round.
What mythpreceded A=bomb?
Yawn
H.G. Wells: His 1914 novel "The World Set Free"
Published in 1914, H.G. Wells' prophetic novel The World Set Free anticipated the invention of atomic bombs and nuclear warfare decades before they occurred. Inspired by early 20th-century studies in radioactivity, the book portrays a devastating global atomic conflict that ultimately leads humanity to rebuild society under a unified world government.
Key Themes and Scientific Inspiration
Atomic Power: Inspired by physicist Frederick Soddy’s work on radium, Wells imagined scientists unlocking unlimited internal atomic energy.
The "Atomic Bomb": The novel explicitly coins and describes continuous hand-thrown atomic bombs that explode indefinitely.
Global Collapse: Depicts a catastrophic worldwide war fought with these weapons in a fictionalized future year (1956 in some expansions).
Utopian Rebirth: Survivors of the nuclear devastation unite to form a peaceful, rational global order.
Real-World Impact
Leo Szilard: The physicist read the book in 1932 and stated it directly inspired his realization of the nuclear chain reaction concept.
Nuclear Age: Actual Manhattan Project scientists frequently referenced Wells' accurate naming and conceptualization of atomic warfare long before the dawn of the atomic age
Sci-Fi isn't technological myth making?
Lem didn't inspire Ovo?
Not Lem. Drexler.
Well. That's too onvious thing -- automated production.
Same as robots.
And not attack with gases?
August 1914 – The French Army was the first to use chemical gas in modern industrial warfare. They launched grenades filled with ethyl bromoacetate (a type of tear gas) against German positions
Better example. And to the point of modern age -- movie "Screachers" -- about man-killing trap-robots, fast-evolving. ;-p
While still -- too obvious.
Like in Harry Harrison "Deadly Planet"
The Explosion Style: Wells described a "blazing continual explosion" where the weapon kept burning and exploding for days or weeks. Real nuclear bombs release their entire explosive and thermal energy in a fraction of a second
That's... not prediction. That's blander.
Yawn
How bout the Demon Core
The demon core caused two fatal criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1945 and 1946. Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both received lethal doses of acute radiation during separate experiments, leading to their deaths from radiation sickness.
The First Accident: Harry Daghlian. Date: August 21, 1945
What happened: Physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a heavy tungsten carbide brick onto the plutonium core while building a neutron reflector assembly.
The result: The core went supercritical, releasing a flash of blue light. Daghlian quickly knocked the brick off, but he absorbed a massive, fatal dose of radiation.
Outcome: He died 25 days later on September 15, 1945, from severe radiation-induced organ failure and skin damage. A nearby security guard, Private Robert J. Hely, also received minor radiation exposure.
The Second Accident: Louis Slotin. Date: May 21, 1946
What happened: Physicist Louis Slotin was performing a "tickling the dragon's tail" demonstration using two beryllium hemispheres as a reflector. He used a flathead screwdriver instead of proper shims to keep the halves separated.
The result: The screwdriver slipped, causing the beryllium dome to close completely over the core. This triggered an immediate prompt-critical chain reaction and a flash of blue light. Slotin manually ripped the pieces apart with his hands to stop the reaction, saving the other scientists in the room.
Outcome: Slotin absorbed a massive, lethal dose of radiation. He suffered severe internal and external radiation burns and died nine days later on May 30, 1946.
Aftermath and Legacy
The Nickname: Following these two fatal accidents with the same 6.2-kilogram plutonium core, scientists grimly dubbed it the "demon core".Policy Changes: Manual, hands-on criticality testing with movable reflectors was permanently banned at Los Alamos.
Disposal: The core was melted down in the summer of 1946 and recycled into other material for standard weapon testing, ending its history as an assembled experimental piece.
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