strange ways
New on Are.na Editorial ** Elan Ullendorff with a primer on How to Escape the Algorithm
https://www.are.na/editorial/so-you-want-to-escape-the-algorithm
instagram.comIn a pure sense, what is ‘normal’ shouldn’t matter very much at all. What is widespread in our community is often wrong and what is currently considered odd might actually be quite wise. But however much we know this intellectually, we are profoundly social creatures; millions of years of evolution have shaped our brains so as naturally to give a g
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Here at Them, we're pro being a "weird little guy."
What exactly does that mean? It's about unapologetically leaning into what brings you joy, no matter how “cringe” or niche it might seem. It's about finding weird little hobbies to become kind of obsessed with; it’s a survival strategy for politically turbulent and str... See more
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affirmations of a strange rabbit🐇
instagram.comWhen something is normative, it’s aspirational. It is also ideological.
Ana Andjelic • Not Normal
🌍 What is Heterodox Economics?
Most people think economics is just about money, markets, and numbers.
But really, it’s about how we live.
How we work, care for each other, and organize the world around us.
At the Center for Heterodox Economics, we’re asking different questions.
We believe the economy sho... See more
instagram.comWhat if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage. And is our life not a mystery school, a seat of earthy instruction?
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Nothing is normal. Things just get normalized.
We have expanded our definitions of many clinical terms to include almost all normal human behavior, terms like intrusive thoughts and mania and dissociation (often misspoken as disassociation). We have confused “normalization” for “universalization” when it comes to clinical terminology, taking diagnostic criteria and symptoms and morphing their m
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