@Meaningness Previous tweet keeps phasing in and out of meaning for me. Usually means it's either good or stupid.
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@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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@St_Rev Yeah, I wasn’t sure either, but I fav’d it in case it makes sense of something later! -
@Meaningness Every dynamic system that persists is an engine for creating itself, that's the evolutionary tautology, so that part's dumb. -
@St_Rev Yes, the distinctive thing is the use of (1) ideological verbiage and (2) ritual procedures to accomplish persistence. -
@St_Rev Foucault is very good on this; it’s his main point. Also Thorstein Veblen, whom no one except me has ever actually read. -
@Meaningness I'm bad at original sources. One reason I ended up Daoist is because the scripture is so short.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.