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• ideas were not enough: locke, spinoza and voltaire were all brilliant, but religious freedom in europe was driven by statecraft not philosophy
  mark koyama 2017
  aeon.co/essays/the-modern-state-not-ideas-brought-about-religious-freedom

  • “Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, something beyond question. Yet how it emerged, and why, remains widely misunderstood”
  • persecution and toleration

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• the craving mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love—why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits
  judson brewer 2017 9780300223248

• the hacking of the american mind: the science behind the corporate takeover of our bodies and brains
  robert lustig 2017 to read next

  • our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression

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• zero zero zero
  robert saviano 2015 9781594205507

  • narco–capitalism

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• warning: author may be dodgy

• chasing the scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs
  johann hari 2014 9781620408926

  • Bruce Alexander: “Human beings only become addicted when they cannot find anything better to live for and when they desperately need to fill the emptiness that threatens to destroy them … The need to fill an inner void is not limited to people who become drug addicts, but afflicts the vast majority of people … to a greater or lesser degree.”
  • “Prescription, it turns out, kills the pyramid selling scheme, by stripping out the profit motive. You don’t have to sell smack to get smack.”
    • this parallels other motives for power, where you need to create an organisation under you if you wish to retain power
    • it really is a contagion, an infection
  • John Marks: “Whatever gave [you] the idea folk in authority operate according to reason? Your trouble is you’re being rational.”
  • “The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection.”

• lost connections: uncovering the real causes of depression – and the unexpected solutions
  johann hari 2017 to read next

  • https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/07/is-everything-you-think-you-know-about-depression-wrong-johann-hari-lost-connections

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• politics and economic stratification: power resources and income inequality in the united states
  david jacobs, jonathan c. dirlam 2016
  687744

  • What factors best explain the U.S. growth in economic stratification since the late 1970s? This research tests the power resource hypothesis with a pooled time-series analysis of income inequality. In a departure from prior research, the explanatory power of both national- and state-level political accounts is evaluated. By analyzing tax statistics, the authors isolate the factors that produce the largest gap in U.S. income distributions. Findings indicate that increases in the political strength of neoliberal national administrations and skill-biased technical change (SBTC) are the most influential determinants—although the SBTC account became much less influential after the 1980s. Other accounts have considerable explanatory power, as the results show that inequality grew after decreases in manufacturing and expansions in minority populations. But these findings show that national-level neoliberal political determinants best explain the extraordinary increase in U.S. income inequality.

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• unbroken brain: a revolutionary way of understanding addiction
  maia szalavitz 2016
  9781466859562

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• how the mafia is causing cancer
  ian birrell 2016
  Link: mosaicscience.com/story/how-mafia-causing-cancer

  • when doctors in rural italy began to see a surge in cancer cases, they were baffled. then they made the link with industrial waste being dumped by local crime syndicates

• sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
  ola olsson 2018
  https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-growing-market-for-citrus-fruit-spawned-the-mafia

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• lensman series and others
  e. e. smith

  • repeated drive for training. increasing scope of obstacles the characters tackle as they grow and develop their abilities. depiction of zwilnik economy as well as public corruption
  • especially important as shows fragility of command structures
  • “full knowledge of that indeterminate zone would mean infinite power and a statistically perfect visualization. none of these things, however, will ever be realized; for the acquirement of that full knowledge would require infinite time.” — e.e. smith, in children of the lens
  • “for the lesser, but full mind to attempt to instruct in methodology the greater, although emptier one, is to set that greater mind in an undersized mold and thus to do it irreparable harm. you have the abilities and the powers. you will have to develop them yourself, by the perfection of techniques concerning which i can give you no instructions whatever.” — e.e. smith, in children of the lens

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• criminal ideation
  • the criminology of homicidal ideation: associations with criminal careers and psychopathology among federal correctional clients
    matt delisi, katherine tahja, alan j. drury, daniel caropreso, michael elbert, timothy heinrichs 2017

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• politics of racism: the uprooting of japanese canadians during the second world war
  ann gomer sunahara 2000

  • Politics_of_Racism.pdf

• how racism is made, and unmade
  charles lindley 2017

  • Historian Charles B. Dew dives deep into his memoir of his Jim Crow South childhood, “The Making of a Racist”
    salon.com/2017/10/01/how-a-racist-is-made-and-unmade/

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• archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty
  douglas j. kennett et al. 2017
  ncomms14115

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• stigma by prejudice transfer
  diana t. sanchez, kimberly e. chaney, sara k. manuel, leigh s. wilton, jessica d. remedios 2017
  0956797616686218

  • In the current research, we posited the stigma-by-prejudice-transfer effect, which proposes that stigmatized group members (e.g., White women) are threatened by prejudice that is directed at other stigmatized group members (e.g., African Americans) because they believe that prejudice has monolithic qualities. While most stigma researchers assume that there is a direct correspondence between the attitude of prejudiced individuals and the targets (i.e., sexism affects women, racism affects racial minorities), the five studies reported here demonstrate that White women can be threatened by racism (Study 1, 3, 4, and 5) and men of color by sexism (Study 2). Robust to perceptions of liking and the order in which measures were administered, results showed that prejudice transfers between racism and sexism were driven by the presumed social dominance orientation of the prejudiced individual. In addition, important downstream consequences, such as the increased likelihood of anticipated stigma, expectations of unfair treatment, and the attribution of negative feedback to sexism, appeared for stigmatized individuals.

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• science doesn’t explain tech’s diversity problem — history does: you can’t fix something by ignoring it
  sarah jeong and rachel becker 2017

  theverge.com/2017/8/16/16153740/tech-diversity-problem-science-history-explainer-inequality

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• cannabis use and hypomania in young people: a prospective analysis
  steven marwaha et al. 2017
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx158

  • Cannabis use in young people is common and associated with psychiatric disorders. However, the prospective link between cannabis use and bipolar disorder symptoms has rarely been investigated. The study hypothesis was that adolescent cannabis use is associated with hypomania in early adulthood via several potential etiological pathways.
    Methods
    Data were used from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK birth cohort study. The prospective link between cannabis use at age 17 and hypomania at age 22–23 years was tested using regression analysis, adjusted for gender, early environmental risk factors, alcohol and drug use, and depression and psychotic symptoms at age 18 years. Path analysis examined direct and indirect effects of the link and whether gender, childhood family adversity, or childhood abuse are associated with hypomania via an increased risk of cannabis use.
    Results
    Data were available on 3370 participants. Cannabis use at least 2–3 times weekly was associated with later hypomania (OR = 2.21, 95% CI = 1.49–3.28) after adjustment. There was a dose–response relationship (any use vs weekly). Cannabis use mediated the association of both childhood sexual abuse and hypomania, and male gender and hypomania. The cannabis use-hypomania link was not mediated by depression or psychotic symptoms.
    Conclusions
    Adolescent cannabis use may be an independent risk factor for future hypomania, and the nature of the association suggests a potential causal link. Cannabis use mediates the link between childhood abuse and future hypomania. As such it might be a useful target for indicated prevention of hypomania.

• market structure leading to distribution
  illicit fentanyls in the opioid street market: desired or imposed?
  sarah g. mars et al. 2018
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14474

  • First synthesized in a Belgian lab in 1960, illicitly produced fentanyl has swept through U.S. drug markets in waves, the latest beginning in 2013, and has claimed an extraordinary number of lives. The researchers who wrote the report said having a better understanding of whether fentanyl's deadly spread is being driven by the economic imperatives of suppliers or the tastes of drug users would help policymakers find ways to curb it.

    Made entirely in the lab, fentanyl is far more powerful and much cheaper to produce than heroin, which is derived from poppy opium. It is usually sold deceptively -- as heroin or brand name prescription drugs like OxyContin and Xanax. The researchers said drug users and street-level dealers, who may also be using the drugs, often don't know whether they are taking or selling drugs adulterated with fentanyl, since it is added to the supply higher up the distribution chain. Therefore, the researchers said, demand from drug users is unlikely to have played a role in its spread.

    "Fentanyl is rarely sold as fentanyl," said Sarah Mars, PhD, a researcher in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF and the first author of the paper, published Tuesday, Dec. 4, in Addiction. "The dealers selling fentanyl directly to the users often don't know what's in it. Not only is this particularly dangerous, but it also means penalizing low level dealers isn't going to make any difference in the fentanyl poisoning epidemic."

    The researchers sifted through the scientific literature on fentanyl use, pored over United Nations opium production data as well as data on heroin price and purity from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and analyzed results from their ongoing NIH-funded study, Heroin in Transition, which is led by senior author Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH, a professor of family and community medicine at UCSF.

    "Our research has focused on talking to people who are using heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin, and asking them about their experiences," said Mars, who directs the study's qualitative research. "Most of the illicit fentanyl has been in the Northeast and Midwest, and we've been to places where the death rate is very high. We asked drug users how they detect it, if they can -- how they try to prevent overdose."

    Mars said users expressed opposing views on fentanyl, which causes a more sudden and powerful but usually shorter high than heroin. While some said they liked fentanyl, because it brought on the euphoria they had lost the ability to feel from tolerance built up by long-term heroin use, or because it broke through the opioid blocking effects of medications like buprenorphine, others said they feared fentanyl and disliked its harsh effects.

    "Whether or not they prefer fentanyl, users don't have any influence over what drugs are being sold," Mars said. "Without accurate information about these drugs, they can't make an informed choice about what they are buying. Also, very little drug slang has developed to describe fentanyl, which lends support to the notion that this is not a demand-driven epidemic."

    The researchers said users do try in various ways to detect fentanyl in the drugs they buy, but it's impossible for them to determine which synthetic opioid is present or how potent it is before they use it.

    Different chemical versions of fentanyl, known as analogues, with wildly varying potency, appear unpredictably in different locations around the country. Some analogues are so new they have not yet been deemed illegal and some, like carfentanil, which was designed to tranquilize large animals, are incredibly powerful -- as much as 10,000 times the strength of morphine.

    "We believe it's the fluctuation in the potency of the drugs containing fentanyl that makes them so dangerous," Ciccarone said. "You might have one dose that had hardly any fentanyl in it or none at all. Then, you might have one with a different fentanyl analogue, of different potency, or even mixtures of multiple fentanyls and heroin."

    The researchers said the data suggest that heroin shortages or 'supply shocks' occurred before the current and prior fentanyl waves struck in both Europe and the U.S. Prescription opioids were also becoming harder to obtain in the U.S. at the time. Fentanyl, which has also appeared in drug markets in many European countries, as well as Russia, Brazil and Canada, is an easy substitute for heroin since it can be produced in the lab year round and is not subject to blight, pests or climate conditions. It is about 30 to 40 times stronger than heroin and considerably cheaper to produce.

    The full motives of wholesale suppliers still remain hidden, but there are significant incentives for them to shift over partially or completely to fentanyl, even though it often causes users to overdose. The researchers said it may just be a matter of time before fentanyl takes over more of the illicit U.S. and worldwide drug market, as has already happened in Estonia.

  • abstract
    Background
    Illicitly manufactured fentanyl and its analogues are appearing in countries throughout the world, often disguised as heroin or counterfeit prescription pills, with resulting high overdose mortality. Possible explanations for this phenomenon include reduced costs and risks to heroin suppliers, heroin shortages, user preferences for a strong, fast‐acting opioid and the emergence of Dark Web cryptomarkets. This paper addresses these potential causes and asks three questions: (1) can users identify fentanyl; (2) do users desire fentanyl; and (3) if users want fentanyl, can they express this demand in a way that influences the supply?

    Argument/analysis
    Existing evidence, while limited, suggests that some users can identify fentanyl, although not reliably, and some desire it, but because fentanyl is frequently marketed deceptively as other drugs, users lack information and choice to express demand effectively. Even when aware of fentanyl's presence, drug users may lack fentanyl‐free alternatives. Cryptomarkets, while difficult to quantify, appear to offer buyers greater information and competition than offline markets. However, access barriers and patterns of fentanyl‐related health consequences make cryptomarkets unlikely sources of user influence on the fentanyl supply. Market condition data indicate heroin supply shocks and shortages prior to the introduction of fentanyl in the United States and parts of Europe, but the much lower production cost of fentanyl compared with heroin may be a more significant factor

    Conclusion
    Current evidence points to a supply‐led addition of fentanyl to the drug market in response to heroin supply shocks and shortages, changing prescription opioid availability and/or reduced costs and risks to suppliers. Current drug users in affected regions of the United States, Canada and Europe appear largely to lack both concrete knowledge of fentanyl's presence in the drugs they buy and access to fentanyl‐free alternatives.

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• association of maternal and paternal depression in the postnatal period with offspring depression at age 18 years
  leticia gutierrez-galve et al. 2018
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.3667

  • Almost one in 20 new fathers suffered depression in the weeks after their child was born, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by Professor Paul Ramchandani of the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

    The research, based on a sample of more than 3,000 families in Bristol, UK, also identified a link between post-natal depression in men and depression in their daughters as they reached adulthood.

    At 18, girls whose fathers had experienced depression after their birth were themselves at greater risk of the condition, researchers found. The "small but significant" increased risk applied only to daughters; sons were not affected.

    One reason for this "handing on" effect could be that post-natal depression in fathers is sometimes linked with an increased level of maternal depression, researchers concluded. This might mean that family life is more disrupted for everyone with higher levels of stress for all. It may also be that the having one or both parents with depression affects the way in which parents interact with their children.

    It is unclear why girls may be more affected at this age. There may be links to specific aspects of father-daughter relationships as girls go through adolescence, the research team suggests.

    The findings are important because they have implications for perinatal services, which have traditionally considered post-natal depression to be a potential problem for mothers only, the study's authors say. They highlight the importance of recognising and treating depression in fathers during the postnatal period, and call on health professionals to consider both parents when one reports depression.

    Professor Ramchandani said: "Research from this study of families in Bristol has already shown that fathers can experience depression in the postnatal period as well as mothers. What is new in this paper is that we were able to follow up the young people from birth through to the age of 18, when they were interviewed about their own experience of depression. Those young people whose fathers had been depressed back when they were born had an increased risk of depression at age 18 years.

    "We were also able to look at some of the ways in which depression in fathers might have affected children. It appears that depression in fathers is linked with an increased level of stress in the whole family, and that this might be one way in which offspring may be affected.

    "Whilst many children will not be affected by parental depression in this way, the findings of this study highlight the importance of providing appropriate help to fathers, as well as mothers, who may experience depression."

    Paternal depression campaigner Mark Williams, who set up the lobby group Fathers Reaching Out and campaigns for mental health screening for new fathers as well as mothers, said: "Fathers' Postnatal Depression impacts on the whole family when unsupported, often resulting in fathers using negative coping skills, avoiding situations and often feeling anger.

    "In my experience of working with families, it's sometimes only the father who is suffering in silence but sadly very few are asked about their mental health after becoming a parent."

    Earlier research by the same academic team found post-natal depression in fathers was linked to behavioural and emotional problems in their children at three and a half and seven. The effect seems to happen because paternal depression may negatively affect the way a family functions -- causing conflict between partners and prompting maternal depression.

    The new paper, Association of Maternal and Paternal Depression in the Postnatal Period with Offspring Depression at Age 18 Years, was based on the experiences of 3,176 father and child pairs drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children -- an ongoing cohort study launched in 1991.

  • abstract Question  What are the mechanisms of risk transmission from paternal depression during the postnatal period to offspring depression at age 18 years?

    Findings  In this cohort study of 3176 father-offspring pairs, paternal depression in the postnatal period was associated with offspring depression at age 18 years and appears to exert its influence on later emotional problems in female children partially through maternal depression. Early conduct disorder in children appears to be a mechanism of risk transmission.

    Meaning  Depression in fathers in the postnatal period has potential implications for family and child functioning into late childhood and adolescence; it should be addressed in perinatal services, and both parents should be considered when 1 presents with depression.

    Abstract
    Importance  Paternal depression during the postnatal period has been associated with adverse child outcomes. Family environment has been reported as a pathway for risk transmission from fathers to children. The influence of paternal depression during the postnatal period on offspring depression remains to be clarified.

    Objective  To investigate the association between paternal depression in the postnatal period and offspring depression and explore potential mediating and moderating factors that influence any association between paternal and offspring depression.

    Design, Setting, and Participants  This prospective study of a UK community-based birth cohort (the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) of parents and their adolescent offspring investigated associations between paternal depression during the postnatal period and offspring depression at age 18 years. We tested a hypothesized moderator (ie, sex) and conducted path analysis to examine hypothesized mediators (ie, depression in the other parent, couple conflict, and paternal involvement and emotional problems, conduct problems, and hyperactivity in offspring at age 3.5 years) of the associations between both paternal and maternal depression and offspring depression. Data collection for the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children began in 1991 and is ongoing. Data analysis for this study was conducted from June 2015 to September 2018.

    Exposures  Depression symptoms in fathers at 8 weeks after the birth of their children.

    Main Outcomes and Measures  Offspring depression symptoms at age 18 years, using International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision codes.

    Results  A total of 3176 father-offspring pairs were analyzed; of the children, 1764 were girls (55.5%) and 1412 (44.5%) were boys. Paternal mean (SD) age at delivery was 29.6 (9.6) years. The offspring of fathers who had depression during the postnatal period were at increased risk of experiencing depression symptoms at age 18 years (β = 0.053 [95% CI, 0.02-0.09]). The association is mediated by maternal depression at 8 months after birth (β = 0.011 [95% CI, 0.0008-0.02]; 21% [0.011/0.053]) and conduct problems at 42 months after birth (β = 0.004; [95% CI , −0.00004 to 0.009]; 7.5% [0.004/0.053]). Couple conflict and paternal involvement do not mediate this association. The increased risk is seen in girls but not boys (interaction β = 0.095; P = .01).

    Conclusions and Relevance  The association between paternal depression in the postnatal period and depression in girls at age 18 years is partially explained by maternal depression. Couple conflict and paternal involvement were not found to play a role in the risk of transmission; this contrasts with the role that couple conflict was found to play in the risk of childhood behavior problems. Conduct problems in childhood appear to be a pathway for risk transmission between paternal depression and subsequent depression in offspring at age 18 years.

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• ruthanna emrys

  • winter tide
    ruthanna emrys 2017

  • deep roots
    ruthanna emrys 2018

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• fiction not yet read

  • honor among thieves
    rachel caine 2018

  • stars uncharted
    s.k. dunstall 2018

  • linesman
    s.k. dunstall 2015

  • fool’s gold
    jon hollins 2016

    • false idols
      jon hollins 2017

    • bad faith
      jon hollins 2018

  • noumenon
    marina j lostetter 2018

    • noumenon infinity
      marina j. lostetter 2018

  • touching infinity
    erin hayes 2017

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  • fear less: living beyond fear, anxiety, anger, and addiction
    dean sluyter 2018

  • the pleasure instinct: why we crave adventure, chocolate, pheromones, and music
    gene wallenstein 2008

  • the fear factor: how one emotion connects altruists, psychopaths, and everyone in-between
    abigail marsh 2017

  • how to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence
    michael pollan 2018

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• why do the terrorists attck the common people? because they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. they do not attack the rich because that is not their purpose. they exist to keep the populace in fear, suppressed.

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• rasputin

  • boney m

  • west cork ukulele orchestra
    Link: m.youtube.com/watch

  • the crazy rutcheon team
    Link: m.youtube.com/watch

  • there lived a certain man in russia long ago
    he was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
    most people looked at him with terror and with fear
    but to moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
    he could preach the bible like a preacher
    full of ecstasy and fire
    but he also was the kind of teacher
    women would desire

    ra ra rasputin
    lover of the russian queen
    there was a cat that really was gone
    ra ra rasputin
    russia's greatest love machine
    it was a shame how he carried on

    he ruled the russian land and never mind the czar
    but the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
    in all affairs of state he was the man to please
    but he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
    for the queen he was no wheeler dealer
    though she'd heard the things he'd done
    she believed he was a holy healer
    who would heal her son

    ra ra rasputin
    lover of the russian queen
    there was a cat that really was gone
    ra ra rasputin
    russia's greatest love machine
    it was a shame how he carried on

    but when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
    for power became known to more and more people
    the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder

    this man's just got to go, declared his enemies
    but the ladies begged, don't you try to do it, please
    no doubt this rasputin had lots of hidden charms
    though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
    then one night some men of higher standing
    set a trap, they're not to blame
    come to visit us they kept demanding
    and he really came

    ra ra rasputin
    lover of the russian queen
    they put some poison into his wine
    ra ra rasputin
    russia's greatest love machine
    he drank it all and said, i feel fine

    ra ra rasputin
    lover of the russian queen
    they didn't quit, they wanted his head
    ra ra rasputin
    russia's greatest love machine
    and so they shot him 'til he was dead

    oh, those russians

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• for home–makers and paid–workers who share a home; if the accepted genders of the home–maker and the paid–worker are reversed, we begin to see that the differences in behaviour are between those who are, due to their circumstances, in certain roles rather than inherent in the people who happen to occupy those roles. so it is not the gender of the paid–worker that determines their inability to understand the contributions of the home–maker, but the limits that come from the role that they play, or are forced to play.

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• hierarchy problems

  • hierarchical organisations are inherently abusive because it is so easy for abusive people to take control of them

  • I always try to go through official channels first. however I don't have much expectation that official channels will work. all it takes is one irresponsible person, a weak link in the chain of command, and the channel is scuppered.

  • thus always have backup plans and sometimes even reliable channels for the essential things that must get through.

  • chabuduo! close enough ...
    your balcony fell off? chabuduo. vaccines are overheated? chabuduo. how china became the land of disastrous corner-cutting
    james palmer 2016
    what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity

    Link: aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity

    • In the end, what perpetuates China’s carelessness most might be sheer ubiquity. Craft inspires. A writer can be stirred to the page by hearing a song or watching a car being repaired, a carpenter revved up by a poem or a motorbike. But the opposite also holds true; when you’re surrounded by the cheaply done, the half-assed and the ugly, when failure is unpunished and dedication unrewarded all around, it’s hard not to think that close enough is good enough. Chabuduo.

  • when all it takes is one person who dislikes you, often from prejudice rather than from knowing you

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• addiction is not chemical, it is habitual
  • fundamental illusion to create war on drugs rather than change habits

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• I feel it abhorrent, if understandable, that so much of abusive culture and relationships relies on creating unnecessary dependency, addiction — competing with other addiction–creators for people. I refuse (as much as I know and am able) to do this, this refusal to abuse and compete may seem unusual in society

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• drugs are used to try to emulate or mimic some of the sensations and states we reach in our dreams. if you can live with just your dreams, as we do, then drugs are completely unnecessary. for example the feeling of floating upwards, or of flying.

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• taleb is unashamably elitist — he believes that high dispersion of wealth (a few very rich, many very poor) leads to the flourishing of the world.

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• world split in two — one is red in tooth and claw, other says you are with us or against us.

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• iridium Ir (ἶρις iris, goddess of the rainbow)
• kimball kinnison
  • communicating via the lens
  • lens of civilisation
• GG
• http link back to 00100