So much in this. Difficult personal testimony but contextualised into deeply pertinent teaching. As ever, lots and lots to pore over. And that clip from Freaks – jeepers, I've not seen this before and it shudders. Thank you for sharing all, intercessional brain servings.
Also, Clique Coup is absolutely our new Bauhaus band name.
Thank you for making the time to read, and the appreciation of its testimony. I'm not the first to experience it, and alas, won't be the last. Part II is next, as there's additional aspects of the experience to process, and some 'good' outcomes from the situation.
So much here that prompts... thoughts, deep, complicated thoughts. And I'm so sorry for what you've had to go through Rina... I don't even have the words, how awful.
Bizarrely, over the course of the weekend (at the People's Day of Death in Liverpool) Freaks was referenced more than once, and I did at one point find myself chanting "one of us, one of us, one of us".
A preview is indeed about how the 'One of Us' can become a double-edged sword.
Part II incoming. Expect recalling witch hunts, lynchings, and expelling neighbours to vacate their residences to move to a different 'residence'. Thanks for the sympathy!
Re-reading your comments on the numbness of our extended nervous system, I'm reminded of a section from Edward Tenner’s book "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" about how at each stage of tool development – as we move from using hands, to hand-tools, to machine tools, to electrical tools, to computers – leads to a sacrifice of control and intimacy. I wrote a very brief piece about it here: https://peakrill.substack.com/p/tools-that-run-tools
So much in this. Difficult personal testimony but contextualised into deeply pertinent teaching. As ever, lots and lots to pore over. And that clip from Freaks – jeepers, I've not seen this before and it shudders. Thank you for sharing all, intercessional brain servings.
Also, Clique Coup is absolutely our new Bauhaus band name.
Thank you for making the time to read, and the appreciation of its testimony. I'm not the first to experience it, and alas, won't be the last. Part II is next, as there's additional aspects of the experience to process, and some 'good' outcomes from the situation.
So much here that prompts... thoughts, deep, complicated thoughts. And I'm so sorry for what you've had to go through Rina... I don't even have the words, how awful.
Bizarrely, over the course of the weekend (at the People's Day of Death in Liverpool) Freaks was referenced more than once, and I did at one point find myself chanting "one of us, one of us, one of us".
A preview is indeed about how the 'One of Us' can become a double-edged sword.
Part II incoming. Expect recalling witch hunts, lynchings, and expelling neighbours to vacate their residences to move to a different 'residence'. Thanks for the sympathy!
Re-reading your comments on the numbness of our extended nervous system, I'm reminded of a section from Edward Tenner’s book "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" about how at each stage of tool development – as we move from using hands, to hand-tools, to machine tools, to electrical tools, to computers – leads to a sacrifice of control and intimacy. I wrote a very brief piece about it here: https://peakrill.substack.com/p/tools-that-run-tools