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Polly Styrene's avatar

Liking Gurwinder’s defibrillator. Hello fellow apes!

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Charlos R.'s avatar

I really need the defibrillator these days

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Warmek's avatar

I think I needed about a two decades ago. Now I might need Gurwinder's Phylactery. :-/

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Lord Voldemort's avatar

*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!

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Polly Styrene's avatar

It is! This list is a gem

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Mike Hind's avatar

This is what sparked Sartre's 'hell is other people' line

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Harry Blatterer's avatar

A goodie and an oldie. Sociologists justify their existence by it, and Sartre was a damn narcissist loved by narcissists everywhere.

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John Mitchell's avatar

Love ❤️ your lists. You are sharp...

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Joe Poynton's avatar

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.”

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Lucy's avatar

I take a screenshot every now and then.

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Grape Soda's avatar

Excellent! Love distilled wisdom. Some stuff that I “know” I need to hear often!

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J.E. Petersen's avatar

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.

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Stephen D. Adams's avatar

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.

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Steersman's avatar

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.

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Joshua Marshall's avatar

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!

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tinamair's avatar

Magnificent brother, as thought provoking as ever! We need a good catch up...

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DestroyTheSelf's avatar

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

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Barbara Charis's avatar

#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.

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Sunil Malhotra's avatar

Too good!

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Shailja Dwivedi's avatar

A great insightful post!

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Oliver Lloyd's avatar

A great read. Thanks a lot for putting this together.

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Bradley Waltman's avatar

Brilliant!! Thank you very much.

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