*Since personality is a performance in the limelight of another’s gaze, we cannot be someone without someone to be someone for.* - Wow, this is disturbingly profound!
I love these articles. There must be a pithy way to express the concept of “Reading Gurwinder’s mega threads but never being able to recall any of the concepts when they would be most useful to you.”
Occasionally one of the dozens and dozens of ideas that grab me hold on long enough for me to actually write a whole thing. For the rest, I might steal this strategy of summary. Thanks in advance.
So many hooks! Ok, you snagged me--I’m now a paying subscriber! Each of them worthy of a lengthy essay. I especially loved Deep Time, Presentism, and Gurwinder’s Defibulator.
Re #28, The Cylindrical Perspective, I first saw that as background to a Twitter biography several years ago. Think I tracked it down to an Imgur graphic from 2016:
So much gold in here. Thank you for taking the time to make this! I will be coming back here often for inspiration. I love reading/writing about ideas like these and I have just recently started posting some short journals on https://trainingthoughts.substack.com/ if anyone is interested. Thanks again and take care!
I had a Great Time reading through this. Funny thing I intuitively knew most concepts but didn't know they had actual terms and names to define them. It was very Insightful
#1 caught my attention...I'm forwarding it to my daughter.. who will like to add this new word to her vocabulary. It fits her brother and my son to a T. He is ultra intelligent, but is like the little man in Lil' abner comics Joe Btfspik, walking around under a dark raincloud about to fall on his head. Every time we speak to my son something else has gone wrong. This has been the story of his life. I read the entire list...and wonder about the photo under: 66 YEARS LATER. Was the moon landing "smoke and mirrors"? Some say it never occurred and that all the technical information relating to this event disappeared.
Liking Gurwinder’s defibrillator. Hello fellow apes!
I really need the defibrillator these days
I think I needed about a two decades ago. Now I might need Gurwinder's Phylactery. :-/
*Since personality is a performance in the limelight of another’s gaze, we cannot be someone without someone to be someone for.* - Wow, this is disturbingly profound!
It is! This list is a gem
This is what sparked Sartre's 'hell is other people' line
A goodie and an oldie. Sociologists justify their existence by it, and Sartre was a damn narcissist loved by narcissists everywhere.
Love ❤️ your lists. You are sharp...
I love these articles. There must be a pithy way to express the concept of “Reading Gurwinder’s mega threads but never being able to recall any of the concepts when they would be most useful to you.”
I take a screenshot every now and then.
Excellent! Love distilled wisdom. Some stuff that I “know” I need to hear often!
Re #6 - https://thedispatches.substack.com/p/candy-candy-everywhere
Occasionally one of the dozens and dozens of ideas that grab me hold on long enough for me to actually write a whole thing. For the rest, I might steal this strategy of summary. Thanks in advance.
So many hooks! Ok, you snagged me--I’m now a paying subscriber! Each of them worthy of a lengthy essay. I especially loved Deep Time, Presentism, and Gurwinder’s Defibulator.
Re #28, The Cylindrical Perspective, I first saw that as background to a Twitter biography several years ago. Think I tracked it down to an Imgur graphic from 2016:
https://imgur.com/gallery/7eF4H/
But a rather brilliant illustration of how perspective tends to colour or distort our perceptions.
So much gold in here. Thank you for taking the time to make this! I will be coming back here often for inspiration. I love reading/writing about ideas like these and I have just recently started posting some short journals on https://trainingthoughts.substack.com/ if anyone is interested. Thanks again and take care!
Magnificent brother, as thought provoking as ever! We need a good catch up...
I had a Great Time reading through this. Funny thing I intuitively knew most concepts but didn't know they had actual terms and names to define them. It was very Insightful
#1 caught my attention...I'm forwarding it to my daughter.. who will like to add this new word to her vocabulary. It fits her brother and my son to a T. He is ultra intelligent, but is like the little man in Lil' abner comics Joe Btfspik, walking around under a dark raincloud about to fall on his head. Every time we speak to my son something else has gone wrong. This has been the story of his life. I read the entire list...and wonder about the photo under: 66 YEARS LATER. Was the moon landing "smoke and mirrors"? Some say it never occurred and that all the technical information relating to this event disappeared.
Too good!
A great insightful post!
A great read. Thanks a lot for putting this together.
Brilliant!! Thank you very much.