Weird Studies/Live in Chicago

10 Jun 2022 04:36 - 10 Jun 2022 06:17
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    • Potions! Rituals around drug use. "weed head shit" – the pleasurable and unnecessarily ritualized consumption of substances.
    • A railroad train interrupted, feel sure I recognized the Santa Fe...
    • Freud and repitition.
    • The subjective attractions of ritual. Comfort, centering, making people pay attention to important and enjoyable and transient sensation.
    • Experience and "skinbags", well, they bettter not give me shit if I use Minsky's term "meat machines".
    • Magic works when you convince the universe that your preferred narrative just has to happen (poor paraphrase) - has to do with the narraive version of life. To be a real materialist you have to embrace story (YAY)