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*)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1180145035594985472 …
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Alex Schleber 👽 😷 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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*)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1180145035594985472 …
Alex Schleber 👽 😷 added,
No, this feels pretty off. The motif I've been thinking of is yggdrasil.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/11/think-entangled-act-spooky/ …
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
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.
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?
no, it's just memetic competition. May the best memes win.
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
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.
yes, that is the continued debate You call it being bureaucratic, yet you yourself are also aggressive with your "coinages" (nothing wrong with that per se, just noted). Of course we can nihilistically undermine anyone's terms from the word go, very much Trickster mode... ;)
Well this isn't France with a bureau of language purity and I'm not forcing anyone to listen, and it's a common language word, not a deep cultural artifact I am offensively appropriating
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