I’ve lately developed an aversion to generalizations, but otoh, I’m wary of the “great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” effect of focusing on situational, contingent, matters... without ideas, you drown in small-minded noise...
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I think that’s what epic narratives do to history. Distill some sort of signature essence out of it. That but for anything/anyone/any time. Post-theory liminal perception or something. It’s a way of seeing and speaking that’s pure 200 proof historicity.
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“See the world in a grain of sand...eternity in an hour” I think refers to this kind of epic eye.
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I suspect this is why I’m obsessed with mediocrity. It seems like the right thing to study.
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It’s interesting to see how this distinguishes synthesis from generalization. It’s something like saying generalizing is averaging, while epic-finding is curve fitting until you hit the zenith?
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Some form of aphairesis? Removal and conservation... What is left behind by removal that takes away.
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Theories are a way of using energy to attenuate the experience of time. If you had perfect theory of everything you would not experience time passing because you would not feel surprise. You would only feel atemporal potential energy. Omniscience ==> omnipotence => atemporality
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