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Erik Davis on The Ezra Klein Show recently spoke about “high weirdness,” saying that “‘weirdness’ isn’t just a quality of things that don’t make sense to us; it’s an interpretive framework that helps us better understand the cultures and technologies that will shape our wondrous, wild future.”
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
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Erik J Larsonerikjlarson.substack.com
Dischner is the only Paradise City member who naturally looks like a GNR doppelgänger. He’s also the guy who makes the trains run on time; he handles the money, coordinates the schedules, and generally keeps his bandmates from killing each other. All of these guys are friendly, but Dischner is the most relentlessly nice. He’s also mind-blowingly
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Drew Austin • Microdosing Life
However, as most anthropologists will attest, humans are wired to live in curated collectives, as opposed to mass societies. So people formed new tribes within a larger society in order to find a “place” where they belonged. The French sociologist Michel Maffesoli referred to these new tribes as “neotribes.” The behavioral patterns within these
... See moreMarcus Collins • For the Culture
In March 2008, Stewart Brand, the famous Merry Prankster and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, stepped out of the Hawaiian jungle and gave me a cryptic recommendation before fading back into the shadows: