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I discussed 113 recent Current Thing narratives in this post (see how many you recognize), but a couple of things to note: 1. The Current Thing may or not have any relation to underlying reality. We live in an era of Baudrillian hyper-reality which is basically completely divorced from underlying reality, as discussed here. This dynamic mirrors the concerns of Marshall McLuhan, who famously argued that “the medium is the message,” emphasizing that media doesn’t just transmit information but it reshapes our perception of reality itself; the Current Thing conditions how people think and feel through its immersive media environment. Guy Debord argued that in a world dominated by images and representations, authentic engagement has been replaced by passive consumption of symbolic action. And as explains, the use of AI to supercharge the Current Thing is becoming even more effective and persuasive, where a recent study shows it is 6x more effective at persuasion than human experts on Reddit’s Change My View forum.

Put in simple terms: what is my beef with Plato and the Atheist Philosophers of the ancient world, exactly?

Psicología jungiana, gnosticismo aplicado.

La inmigración debe tener siempre como objetivo la integración, no la desintegración ni la segregación, es decir, la creación de pequeñas “naciones” conflictivas dentro del país (cf. S. Th., I-II, q. 105, a. 3).

En el romanticismo alemán (Werther, Novalis, Hölderlin), la neotenia se transforma en exaltación de la juventud como esencia del espíritu ... En la literatura de tradición hispanogrecolatina no hay personajes «adolescentes»: hay niños que se convierten en hombres en una lucha abierta y descarnada por la supervivencia. Hay pícaros, pero no adolescentes.

Diccionario filosófico. Manual de materialismo filosófico. Una introducción analítica. Segunda edición, versión 5. Julio de 2021.

Logic bro