Tried to inventory sources of authority, and there’s way more than I thought: individual, institutions, doctrines, core texts, totalizing plans, statistical precedent, persuasive argument, aesthetic closure, witnessing, collective sentiment, gut feelings, consensus historicism...
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If I give you the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,... you will feel compelled to add 64 as the next number in the sequence even though I haven’t set a rule or reason. The sequence has a “powers of 2” aesthetic. Or “underdog must win” in a sports movie. What Pratchett called Narratvium
11:24 AM - 20 Nov 2019
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