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In which Venkat rediscovers the ancient "The Sphinx"/ Weirdness/Unknown Core #Archetype😅 (I use "Sphinx" BTW because it's the original *grotesque* man/beast hybrid posing dangerous *riddles*)
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“Great weirding” is my only from-the-future meme because it’s gained some currency even though I’ve never actually explained it. I went public with it in passing in 2016 in my Atlantic Harambe essay and have been using it without defining it ever since. theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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Entangled/Spooky is 100% on "Sphinx/Riddle" target. The tree itself is a riddle & the 3 "nornir" (~= 3 Fates/Moirai) women Urd (past already here), Verdandi (evolving present), & Skuld (that which is to come, debt) from the *lake/well/depth* determine the enigmatic fate of wo/men
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I think you're straining too hard to prove yggdrasil = sphinx all sorts of detailed epicycles and abstractions as usual, which seem like overfitting noise to fit your theory to me. This is why I basically don't buy your approach to archetyping.
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that's OK. You are of course free to draw any term & associated concepts into whatever maelstroms of thought you want to hash out. But that's private association more than true memetic effects?
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sure, but that's not the thesis of archetypes. If you just want ever-changing memetics, then you don't need the term at all. But then you're stuck with the problem of explaining the remarkable stability through eras & cultures
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My point is the stability is something you're force-fitting on change. You're fitting the territory of history to the map of things you're squinting to see as way more stable then they are. And you're also being a bit bureaucratic about the definition of the term.
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