ephemera

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 I continue to think that the Matrix films were generally right, in an even stronger manner than the Baudrillard-based distortions of reality.  Which are actually pretty uncontroversial.  It's stronger than that.  Until the false glazing of the normal way that things are with the world, the schein, the vague sense of everything in existence -- until this vanishes, you honestly can't tell a good thing from a bad thing.

Hence, perhaps, there is some danger in putting all of your writing out there, as opposed to filling notebooks on the desk.  As Plato pointed out, once you've written something, there's no telling who might pick it up.  Beyond the risk of gaslighting, there's also the certainty that much of it wouldn't chime with the way folks think about the world after watching television for a few hours.

Nonetheless, I've gone toe-to-toe with some rather interesting folks, and in every encounter, the open book has been clearly the right way to go.  It might not make much sense, and it might be taken to be something that it isn't, but it will all be very necessary in the end.