Okay, maybe you're just reading the bones, but holy moley there are some crackling-good insights here! I STRONGLY suggest you seek out interminable, inscrutable, possibly-nonsensical stream-of-consciousness miasma manifestos, read them carefully, and then post interpretations.
We may want to page Robert Wright, whose "Why Buddhism Is True" has obviously absolutely nothing to do with anything mentioned here.
I love (in a terrified sort of way) the insight that where status-seeking behavior is concerned, all that matters is the chemical response in the brain. Your anonymous philanthropic donation (or my slightly pseudonymous comment) is still a bid for status because all it has to do is please the audience in our minds. I mean ... now Twitter makes sense. This is the great hack of our technological era. "likes" turn out to be an in-kind substitute for resources and access to mates. This is way better than "42". Now I can enjoy the apocalypse.
Okay, maybe you're just reading the bones, but holy moley there are some crackling-good insights here! I STRONGLY suggest you seek out interminable, inscrutable, possibly-nonsensical stream-of-consciousness miasma manifestos, read them carefully, and then post interpretations.
We may want to page Robert Wright, whose "Why Buddhism Is True" has obviously absolutely nothing to do with anything mentioned here.
I love (in a terrified sort of way) the insight that where status-seeking behavior is concerned, all that matters is the chemical response in the brain. Your anonymous philanthropic donation (or my slightly pseudonymous comment) is still a bid for status because all it has to do is please the audience in our minds. I mean ... now Twitter makes sense. This is the great hack of our technological era. "likes" turn out to be an in-kind substitute for resources and access to mates. This is way better than "42". Now I can enjoy the apocalypse.