Weird Studies/Neighbor George

28 Jul 2022 11:00 - 27 Aug 2022 05:23
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    • As usual, this drifited into the ontology of the supernatural and modernism. Bruno Latour came up. These discussions always get me thinking about my own views, and how they differ from that of the hosts, or perhaps aren't all that different.
    • Naturally all direct talk of the supernatural and the paranormal sets my teeth on edge. To which the WS people might respond, quite reasonably, if I don't like that kind of thing, why am I hanging around these precincts?
    • Well, one answer is that while parnormalism isn't very attractive to me, I share with the WS folks a sense that something is really wrong and broken with modenity, science, materialism, rationalism, whatever you want to call it. (So does everybody else pretty much, aside maybe from some overly aggressive Science Guy types). I've always liked art that questioned the hard edges of reality, a taste which I also share with WS, they just take ti a few degrees more seriously than I am willing to.
    • Everything you hate is part of you (including Donald Trump, ech).
      • Yeah I gotta admit the truth of that. It stands to reason – you have to represent the things you don't like. Aversion to things you don't like, attraction to those you do, it's the basic engine of samsara. Dvesha is the Buddhist term Dvesha (Buddhism) - Wikipedia).
        • My intense opposition to fascism worries me sometimes – the stronger and more justified the hate, the more likely that there is some part of myself I am not seeing.
    • MC Richards sounds interesting.
    • The fall into conceptualization.