Post 2197553 by neauoire@merveilles.town
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(DIR) Post #2197467 by salamander@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:18:46Z
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except from a thing (feedback welcome):"Dependence is something our left-brained, myopic, structural society seeks to rout out. Individuals are better economic units that create more wealth in a capitalist system because fewer connections means less nepotism and more efficient use of resources. We see everything as a sum of parts and not as a whole. As if there are clean, sterile interfaces between the boundaries we draw up to separate entities."(cont)
(DIR) Post #2197468 by neauoire@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:21:01Z
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@salamander As if there are clean, sterile interfaces between the boundaries we draw up to separate entities. (ungrammatical)I would combine the two thoughts into one.
(DIR) Post #2197528 by salamander@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:19:16Z
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"Reality is not so simple; if you look closely dependence is everywhere. Boundaries are leaky, especially the ones we use to define ourselves. They leak out of us and into the people around us, into our environment through our actions. Into our garbage cans through our waste. Our blanket of self is soiled with the world around us, and our own fluids mark it with our histories."(cont)
(DIR) Post #2197529 by salamander@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:20:12Z
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"The other and the self are not so different. The dead skin is the the other to the living skin it sits on top of. The body is the other to the mind. The conscious is the other to the subconscious. Through these leaky boundaries we are bound to our environment inextricably. Independence is a myth used to justify a cost to the other for a gain of the self."
(DIR) Post #2197530 by neauoire@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:24:09Z
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@salamander "is (the) the other" typo
(DIR) Post #2197553 by neauoire@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:25:41Z
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@salamander What do you mean by "Our blanket of self is soiled with the world around us, and our own fluids mark it with our histories."?
(DIR) Post #2197568 by salamander@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:27:12Z
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@neauoire this bit is a reference to earlier in the essay. The blanket is the boundary around the self (in the sense of a markov blanket and also of skin). I'm just noting that the blanket isn't a clean interface with poetic license.
(DIR) Post #2197601 by neauoire@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:29:14Z
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@salamander isn't soiled a bit strong, especially if you want to make the point that things shouldn't be seen as independant? It sounds like it is taking a side, do you think "tainted" would be better?
(DIR) Post #2197663 by neauoire@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:32:08Z
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@salamander "The blankets that wraps around our selves are tainted by what we wish for them to protect us against, the history itself is written into our very fluids."
(DIR) Post #2197717 by salamander@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:34:28Z
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@neauoire I think a little word smithing and it'll end up somewhere between the two.Thanks for the feedback.
(DIR) Post #2197753 by neauoire@merveilles.town
2018-12-22T20:36:00Z
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@salamander this little text echoes the ideas of Alan Watts in regard to "The self implies others".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMHHwJ9Eqk