162 - Magnetic Textures

We have a bit of an ayahuasca purge on this episode. The past three years left a bad taste in JDO's mouth, and he articulates what exactly bothered him so much about people's response to global crisis. Next time, we get fun and positive as a palate cleanser, but this one felt necessary at the time to get all the poison out. We can move on from here.

 

In this episode, we talk:

 

What are you manipulating? What are you manipulated by?

 

We talk about High Strangeness in high temperatures. Unexpected pest control community service. Automated negligence. Survival of the Sanest. "Humanity always pokes through". Rehabilitated expectations / Integrated ethics. A sanitarium in the woods. Textured storytelling and the Emblematic. Applying principals over value judgements. 

 

Exploring the lust for facets and fixation. Augmented Backmasking Game. The Graveyard of Failed Pitches. Rejigging the Formula (trusting hidden rivers). Performative syntax. The Trafficking of Image Currency. The pathogen of self-hypnotic photography. Microlabs of Cryptogenic Time Control. Transitory masks of initiation. Mini epics of manipulation. Edward T. Hall's "Human Extensions''. Doomed mimetics (pat apocalypses). The Selfie vs. The Mask. 

 

Nightmare callback. Secular Disguises vs. Sacred Costumes. Self-less faces concealing themselves. Obscured recognition. The psychotic detritus of vintage crisis management. Beautiful psyops. All-purpose Manichaeism. The disturbance of rapid social change. Large scale ritual sacrifice (David goes to church). Pop culture survivor's guilt in Big Sur. The fungal classism of unquestioned hypocrisy. The Infallible Panel of Experts. 

 

Conspiracy Theory as Category. Pynchon's COVID novel. "Everything's going to plan". Allegorical distance. Scrappy points of view and amending opinions. Suspicious explosive change. Nonplayer Roleplayer (Collision vs. Integration). Giving attention to what's interesting. Inexplicable bafflement. The courage of curiosity as virtue. Grumpy satisfaction. RnD as practice and discipline. Hiders and Seekers (who's stepping in the river?"). All live events matter. "Nothing simple in the Doing''. The Non Agency of the Woke Junky. 

 

Recurring dream settings. Landlord Anxiety at Sting's Luxury Apartments and a schism in the Small Town soap opera.

 

Thank you to Nick Spinnett for his amazing summary.