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Thought of the day
Internal states of mind are meant to be a basis for acting in external reality. This is why you should guard against delusion. When your internal model of reality doesn’t match up with external reality, you can’t act effectively, and bad things usually happen. This requires constant maintenance.
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How to make gerrymandering go away
Gerrymandering relies on two-party predictability Map-drawers (often state legislatures controlled by one party) can carve districts based on predictable voting patterns—Dem vs. GOP. This works because in a binary race, even a 51% edge guarantees total control of that seat. But… — Enter a viable third (or fourth) party: Now the math goes chaotic:…
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Pro Tip
People underestimating you can only work to your advantage
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The Meaning Crisis
Or The Meaning Opportunity. Since the breakdown of broad meaning creating institutions and their worldviews being imposed on us from outside, there is a vacuum of meaning in modern society. This is what Neitzche referred to in his pronouncement “God is dead”. The opportunity comes in with the lack of a imposed mytho-poetic narrative, individuals…
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Random Thoughts…
Ethics is the brake on pragmatism. Just because it’s the most effective and efficient way to do something doesn’t mean it’s the right way
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Sometimes it gets real
I recently ran across a discussion on how to handle personal safety concerns with a strongly ideological bent. When it comes to safety, both mine and others, I go completely practical. It is an in the moment, physical thing. You have to think rationally and react without second guessing yourself.You have to be totally grounded…
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Where the f*ck are all the eccentrics?!
Since this is an eccentric blog, what better place to start than the state of Eccentricity. https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,839826-3,00.html
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Random Acts of Eccentricity 