A crucial aspect of this platform is the “skandalon,” which per René Girard is “a paradoxical obstacle that is almost impossible to avoid: the more this obstacle repels us, the more it attracts us.” Most behavior here is mediated in just this way. Choose your skandalons wisely.
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Book brain: sounds similar to the way Zizek describes the subject itself, constituted by a desire the fulfillment of which would be a catastrophe Twitter brain: Ghost in the Shell Skandalon Complex
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