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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone studies your community and describes it back to you, what makes you feel truly understood instead of reduced to a pattern, and what could researchers learn from your answer?”
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Our Experience of Gender is Caught in a Drama Triangle
My contribution to the #DeepTakes event is an experience I find really alienating and lonely on a personal level and I see it playing out culturally in a way that seems to impact everyone I know (and obviously huge swaths of people I don't).To express what I am seeing in this... Left Media Bias bigger than i realized
No matter how you measure (print media, online, page views, paid subscribers, followers, etc) US media leans heavily left, to an extent that surprised me.... The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, probably via use of the word "optics" ;)
I've been reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged*, of course, at least to start with!). New to the topic, and I’ve never identified as a history buff, but I’m really loving it.... It feels like not a coincidence that the thread about media bias has by far the most activity. A couple ways I can think to interpret this are: UpTrust is a project that’s quite centrally about addressing this issue as a facet of the bigger problem of global meaning making, and... - annabeth...
There are a few ways I’m orienting to this. For a long time I listened to NPR every day and got huge emotional surges around every new piece of political info. For the past 5-7 years I am either in a correction or overcorrection.... We need new gender categories, while preserving the distinctness of "man" and "woman"
I don’t mind using different pronouns—I’m happy to love someone with whatever language they prefer. But I’d like to propose that deconstructing traditional genders is not only unnecessary, it’s harmful.... Monogamy v polyamory
Is monogamy better? Is poly better? Is there an overall norm for people, with exceptions? Is it totally pluralistic? Here are some points for monogamy, with some counter points, to convey some of my uncertainty but nevertheless leaning into what I’ve chosen: Point: I don’t know a... Reminds me there’s a Michael Meade quote I found recently, "Abuse is the wrong thing done to the wrong person by the wrong person at the wrong time. Regardless how wrong it is, the soul experiences abuse as an initiatory experience.... Austin is so strange. There’s a kool-aid here that strangely perpetuates until it’s not really a koolaid anymore: be interesting, be friendly, make friends, have fun. I think all the people moving here keeps a constant state of excitement and openness.... - annabeth...
This is helping me clarify my frustration. I’m mad at the attempts to deconstruct the binary male/female, and I’m mad at total denial of trans identity. And you’re pointing out ways to say yes to everyone in a healthy coexistence.... Read the full post - marcello...
Cities and Ambition
I recently reread this Paul Graham essay [ https://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html ]. It’s about what messages individual places send their inhabitants vis-a-vis which ambitions are good.... - ballz2dwallz...
More People Should Die
Elderly people should be able to legally choose to end their life when they’re ready. In fact, any adult should be legally allowed to choose to die. They should be able to invite people, be present for their memorial service, and have a medical professional end their life.... - annabeth...
Could it be ethically ok to not vote?
note: I posted this two hours before Biden stepped down. It’s possible that a different Dem candidate could change my choices, but my overall perspective feels the same.... Why having kids is bonkers (if you’re addicted to comfort)
Hot take: If your life is all about chasing pleasure, getting the newest shiny thing, and looking for your next dopamine hit, then yeh – having kids is nuts. They’re messy, noisy, and they’ll likely ruin your dreams of becoming a social media influencer.... sure, but what about people being manipulated to choose life, which is currently what happens?
- Arun...
A future I love is more village than city.
Perhaps there's a sci-fi version here where humans become much much better at cities, but the version I like at the moment is Village 2.0. I want to keep networked, light-speed global communication, so knowledge can continue to evolve, enrich, and compound.... Most of us have Community-Neglect
Common understanding that childhood emotional neglect is extremely damaging to a child. "Emotional neglect occurs when caregivers fail to provide the emotional support, validation, and attention children need during their formative years." I would argue most of us also... - david...
Meaning Crisis, or Meaning of X, or ....
I spoke to a friend this past weekend who recently took the package from a federal agency, and is likely going to have trouble finding new employment.... - SuziQ...
What if Tariffs Are a Good Thing?
I was surprised to find that this podcast made me wonder whether tariffs would actually be really good for the US economy and, more importantly, for midd-class American people.... My close friends started a quasi-gang when I was in middle school (roughly 13 years old) after watching a 1981 movie called "The Wave" which was ironically screened in their class to point out how easy it was to lead to Nazism. I haven't seen the movie....