AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Art makes stones stoney, AKA letting their true nature shine through our cloud of symbolic representations. (I have noticed this effect on psychedelics and really would like a name for it).
JFM: art offers a form of materialism that would put Newton and Darwin to shame. Real materialism, matter → mutter. Not a nihilistic or reductionist materialism, but one where matter is directly alive (see neovitalism ). OK.
Carl Jung's Aion, Satan or anti-christ as the repressed shadow of Jesus
They see some things in these lines that I don't
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
but that's OK. A ref to poets in the US being free but meaningless, damn, that reminds me of somethign but I can't quite place it...was it Andrei Codrescu? No... damn I know I heard that exact sentiment but can't google it. Paul Auster? Kurt Vonnegut? Damn that is irritating.
Switch to Mephisto ?
Steven Pinker as Enlightenment punching bag (he deserves it). I'm not sure he believes that "soon we will know everything there is to know", I think that might be a strawman (repeated elsewhere like that Weird ≡ Good Patreon piece).