The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Reality is being perpetually cannibalized and reconstituted by a process of bottomless recursion known as human perception.

I want you to think of reality less as a sequence of events and more like a brain that has suffered a cataclysm, leaving the hapless owner to confabulate past experiences according to shaky logic. Or a forest that mostly burned down and then regrew in a completely different way.

why privilege the real over the imaginal anyway? > real things tend to last longer { but are no more meaningful as a result }

why not? anything can be imagined, but without a criterion of quality about what *should* be imagined, why imagine anything at all? even solipsists and hedonists (tacitly) privilege reality, just the reductive, comfortable, parts of reality (their own cope)

Once you really understand the chaos entailed by subjectivism, you can only believe in rationalism, even if it's just the rationalism of a subjectivist; rationalism builds walkable ground that won't fall out from under, subjective nonsense about angels, gods, and ghosts does not.

Kierkegaard says faith is more solid ground than fact. I must conclude Kierkegaard has not tried both.

(classical) rationalism is foundationally subjectivist- and its “unshakiness” is *exactly* like the unshakiness of faith, another subjectivist moral technology kant’s a prioris are Idealist, after all

I mean more like Popper. Pre-Yudkowskian Tarskian scientism basically.