like, they have built this massive, lying, thieving, motivated reason generator.

there's a genre of post which is like, "I don't trust AI but isn't it cool/funny/telling that it said thus and such thing I wan to hear?!"

no, for the love of god. it's when it tells you what you want to hear that you should be most suspicious!

And human connection is how you navigate our inescapable interdependence.

The end result of the obsession with never being vulnerable is an inability to relate to *yourself,* which means you will be forever hungry and unable to actually be nourished, only consume.

Like yeah, working out how to relate to other conscious beings that you can’t fully control is hard.

It’s also *necessary.* Trying to make human interdependence invisible doesn’t actually make it go away.

And vulnerability, while it can be scary, is the port for human connection.

I haven't settled on a primary fave commentator yet but Ibn Ezra is definitely up there

it's insane to me that people can't just say how our own shit works and be taken seriously until Western intellectuals figure it out on their own or get to it the long way or by reverse-engineering it. jfc

just go "pft, whatever, we know better than you" and ignore us all. Then a video comes out about how scientists and academics are bridging the gap between ritualized non-human animal behaviors and human "religious" things...and now it has merit? WHY DON'T THEY LISTEN TO US🤬

like, Jews and all sorts of Indigenous peoples (like Maori, Quechua, Northern Plains &c.) have been screaming that our culture can't be separated out into Christian-defined categories of "religious" and "secular." But western post-Enlightenment folks are so cultural-Christianity brained that they-

These walkouts are taking place as social media in the city is flooded with videos of fascist foot soldiers terrorizing locals leaving children alive in cars in below freezing weather and illegality breaking into citizens homes to detain them illegally. Minnesota is at war and the kids are alright.