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How do you know your attempt at semantic disruption is working? Two signs: Social proof: people resonate wit your sense of usage. They train on, and add to, your use instances. Material proof: navigating with that concept yields better-than-random results, ie it finds agency
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I don’t think you can fight it, at least not alone. Logging and journaling don’t anchor long-term memory, you need creative live responses for that. Creative agency is memory and too many writers have experienced too deep a loss of agency.
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This is what drives us crazy with cognitive dissonance. The wrong people being randomly better for *our* goals than right ones. A universe with that kind of unpredictability in the basic causal chain of agency (values —> intentions —> actions —> outcomes) makes us feel helpless
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Alice is actually a bit of a high-authoritah jerk like Cartman, crossed with a high-ADHD weirdo improv artist who just rolls with whatever. Alice in Wonderland is just one giant Yes, And to absurdity, navigating murdered time with high agency, but low meaningfulness.
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Oddly enough, I was the least rebellious teenager ever. Simple open rejectionism is not actually much fun. Quiet, imaginative subversion of over-evangelized norms, served slightly chilled, is much better. That takes adult sensibilities/agency. Teens can't really pull that off.
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Polytheism is a religion based on extending the default way of knowing we think of as “agency” for example. Knowing-by-becoming. Explaining things in terms of the transformational desires of agenty things. Monotheism is based on knowing-by-being.
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