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I am having this tatooed on my right arm.

"To avoid Affliction, we see a need for us to be subjects who can handle, give Attention to, and face “lack,” that which we must then “Absolutely Choose” to be apophatic or mere nothing (which will eventually bring us to the work of Stanley Rosen). But we cannot plan for “lack,” only be prepared for it, and this is for me to be “different kinds of subjects” then the kinds of subjects who we have been for most of history. This is for us “to move from the neurotypical to the neurodiverse,” per se, which is for us to move from A/A to A/B, Discourse to Rhetoric — it is for us to become Children. If much now rides on us figuring out how to spread the conditions in which people “leave Plato’s Cave on their own,” then what this means is we must move from a socioeconomic system focused on “planning” to one which is “prepared.” This is for us to take Ivan Illich seriously (as we will discuss), and it is for us to become Antifragile and “intrinsically motivated.”

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