"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.”
Thanks Cleo, and I would love to be there to hear that conversation with the tattoo artist. We'll have to get James Wisdom at Philosophy Portal to do it! Perfect.
oh good, that will join my project of getting merch for Philosophy Portal. I am soliciting a recipe for diamond punch from my son for Terence’s class. By the way I have not forgotten Dante but what with the new Garner and my ongoing labor over my essay on maternity (yes) I have decided we should riff on this when we meet. In the meantime, I mentioned to my stepdaughter the poet Kirsten Wasson that I wanted wine and perfume pairings for that course. She suggested chocolate as well, and came up with this for the Inferno:
Limbo White Chocolate With Toasted Aztec Macadamia Liqueur Filling, Dark chocolate Sprinkled With Second-Circle Chili Flakes, Sixth-Circle Heresy Truffle Infused With Nuance Of Wrath Seeds, a Treachery Shell of Ninth-Circle Crisped Lemon Rind Covering A Crème de Absinthe Mouth-Watering Fruit Of Regret.
First, Dante's Dinner of Wasson is ready for launch: history was made for this moment. And second, all that sounds great on the course! Always down for a good riff. Until then, I'll take one Heresy Truffle Influenced with Nuance Wrath Seeds...
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.”
Thanks Cleo, and I would love to be there to hear that conversation with the tattoo artist. We'll have to get James Wisdom at Philosophy Portal to do it! Perfect.
oh good, that will join my project of getting merch for Philosophy Portal. I am soliciting a recipe for diamond punch from my son for Terence’s class. By the way I have not forgotten Dante but what with the new Garner and my ongoing labor over my essay on maternity (yes) I have decided we should riff on this when we meet. In the meantime, I mentioned to my stepdaughter the poet Kirsten Wasson that I wanted wine and perfume pairings for that course. She suggested chocolate as well, and came up with this for the Inferno:
Limbo White Chocolate With Toasted Aztec Macadamia Liqueur Filling, Dark chocolate Sprinkled With Second-Circle Chili Flakes, Sixth-Circle Heresy Truffle Infused With Nuance Of Wrath Seeds, a Treachery Shell of Ninth-Circle Crisped Lemon Rind Covering A Crème de Absinthe Mouth-Watering Fruit Of Regret.
First, Dante's Dinner of Wasson is ready for launch: history was made for this moment. And second, all that sounds great on the course! Always down for a good riff. Until then, I'll take one Heresy Truffle Influenced with Nuance Wrath Seeds...