Conservatism is an impossible theoretical stance in a technological society.

"Revolution and Tradition” George Grant 1970

Sped-up and overloaded we are becoming machine-like, skimming with emotions and thinking alike.

The Erosion of Deep Literacy Adam Garfinkle Spring 2020

Traditional sources of morality are being replaced by networks that determine morality based on open source consensus. Commenting on: “the share of people who describe themselves as “not religious” increased rapidly since 2012-14.”

@johnrobb Oct 20, 2019

“We are not thinking machines. We are feeling machines that think. — Antonio Damasio

Humans are Empathy Machines Carlos E. Perez 11.3.2019

Christopher Alexander’s pattern languages can be introduced in a creative, conversational design process in several key ways:

— As a framework for design conversations — ... Pattern languages provide a shared vocabulary and structure

— To spur creative re-framing — pattern languages encourages designers to re-see design challenges from different... See more

Technical systems can be fully cognitive, even if they aren’t fully alive. Cognition is the process of interpreting information within contexts that connect it with meaning.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions” Critical Inquiry 43:1 (2016): 32-55.

Inside the Trump machine: the bizarre psychology of America’s newest political movement Gwynn Guilford 4.1.2016

1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)

2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality... See more

Illich — his spirituality if we can put it that way for brevity's sake was

something ... intimate ...it was very real and ... [not] that kind of

dragging it out in order to make his points more convincing or to give it a

kind of authority that's borrowed from religion as if the faith becomes a

means towards something other than itself

DO 93 LM Sacassas

They aren’t crazy, just irrational. Just like you.

Matthew Pierce 9.27.2021