Step 54: The World Beyond Your Head (pt 2)
How does the self combat an environment that dissolves the self? How do we find autonomy by giving up the “self”?
Step 53: The World Beyond Your Head (pt 1)
The “attention economy” distracts us from ourselves and others. This is bad.
Step 51: Ambiguity (optimization pt. 4)
The self is fickle, willpower is unreliable, culture shapes us. What are we optimizing into? And can we find freedom in ambiguity?
Step 50: The Hero Trendency (optimization pt 3)
Becoming super is super, but what are your underlying motivations?
Step 48: Self Optimization Lure (optimization pt 1)
The lure of self-optimization is powerful and seductive.
Step 47: Sacred Economics (part 2)
How can negative interest realign money with the sacred values of nature?
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- Step 70: Scapegoating and Sacrifice
- Dec-Jan 2023: Consuming and Producing
- Step 69: Memetic Desire
- Step 68: Malign Velocities (Accelerationism)
- Nov-Dec 2022: Consuming and Producing
- Step 67: Accelerationism & Futurism
- Oct-Nov 2022: Consuming and Producing
- Sept-Oct 2022: Consuming and Producing
- Step 66: Cybernetics & Capitalism
- Aug-Sept 2022: Consuming and Producing
- Step 65: The path of opposition (failure as transcendence)
- July-Aug 2022: Consuming and Producing