wow humor as a bug in reality seems profound in some obscure way
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Reminds me of this, how the supernatural can punch a hole in the tightly knit and too predictable worldview of custom in a previous era
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"All that is solid melts into air", a line from The Communist Manifesto, fits the development in philosophy just as well as it does economics. Nietzsche would be shocked by how, in the 20th century, it kind of came to be true for science too!
From Nietzsche's "The Gay Science":
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oh yeah I’m super interested in these notions of the “supernatural” right now, mostly inspired by C.S. Lewis’s book “Miracles” which I heard about from good old
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I’m thinking about it in a general sense like the supernatural is anything that seems to come from outside “the system” as if we’re always living inside different snowglobes and keep noticing these surprising intrusions that remind us our sensemaking is only a limited simulation
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A long time ago I also stumbled on this interesting book “A Rumor of Angels” by the sociologist who coined the notion of “social construction”
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humor is supernatural
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Great excerpts!
It seems to me that mind has a limited set of mediums and possible elements rendered in those mediums. The "snowglobe" is a practical and natural attunement of this dreamworks, but it can also express e.g. the unconscious, in a more ad hoc and inconsistent way.
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The supernatural, then, could be seen as a way to leave the door open to the outside, from inside the snowglobe—even as it expands and gets really finely attuned to empirical data with science and so on. There's still something fundamental about our minds it can't account for.
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I've spent some time thinking about the Jungian conception of the unconscious today, and "active imagination". Seems to me like fantastical expressions are like learning a language of sensory and conceptual resonances which the unconscious may then dress up in and show up for us.
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The language of myth isn't static or inborn but a psycho-technology honed and developed by art and entertainment. The unconscious just uses whatever's available. Currently, this development is haphazard at best, poisonous at worst, bc driven by attention-harvesting consumerism.
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i feel this. i especially think the lack of heartfelt children’s movies is extremely bad. although everything non-american that makes it onto, say, netflix, seems really refreshingly not this way to me so far
Yes, Miyazaki movies are especially great in this regard, I think. But if it's not already the case, I expect to see a kpop-like super-commercialization of everything in the future. Good taste is corroded by and will eventually give in to profit logic
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