@St_Rev But I’m not really sure who would be embarrassed by that.
@Meaningness Right, the scientistic model founded in measurement (chemical assays etc.) complicates & elaborates itself.
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@St_Rev OP said UK has banned ~350 substances. If banning one takes (say) 5 person years’ bureaucratic work, that employs a lot of people > -
@St_Rev with a vested interest in preserving the one-at-a-time model. And since anti-drug apparatus is not about drugs, no opposing interest -
@Meaningness A bureacracy is a machine for generating bureaucracy. Automated sacralization, the liturgy inscribes itself. -
@Meaningness Previous tweet keeps phasing in and out of meaning for me. Usually means it's either good or stupid. -
@Meaningness I think I was trying to get at something about...process as generator of its own legitimacy. -
@St_Rev Which is what “experts” do in general—create institutions that validate their expertness and vice versa. -
@Meaningness starting to remember again what burroughs must have felt when he decided to destroy language itself.
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