Hello dear future historians and contemporary readers
I had my graduation ceremony!
Also I have a video that I think you'll like.
Press here to listen to the dream of a cynical optimist
10/11/2024
8/02/2024
Thoughts on Productivity and Neurodiversity
Mephistophelian Commodities and Pathological Demand Avoidance:
6/28/2024
Ποιηματάκι (my very ancient Greek history :-p)
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ΟΝΕΙΡΟΠΟΛΗΣΗ Vs ΟΡΑΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΣ (my very ancient Greek history :-p)
Καλοκαίρι 2007 στον Αρμενιστή. Εγώ δουλεύω στο market του camping. Έχω ρεπό και σε λίγο θα πάμε στην παραλία.
5/31/2024
Psychohistory thoughts summer 2024
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, the Empire’s collapse is related to the decline of high-level education. Hari Seldon is one of the last experimental scientists. The generations after that had some basic training, but not sufficient to follow Hari Seldon’s math. They have nuclear power, but they only know how to operate the power-stations, and how to maintain them. They have no idea how to repair them. No chances of improving their technology. In fact, once entropy destroys their energy towers, they will fall in another round of Dark ages.
At least in the Foundation, they don’t have to worry
much about other kingdoms overtaking them. They might lack scientific
knowledge, compared to their predecessors. However, their low-level apprenticeships
knowledge, and their basic maintenance skills are sufficient to compete their contemporary
potential enemies.
I am watching the UK news about the coming elections, and my
limited Psychohistory knowledge light up a red alert button when I hear that
they are promoting apprenticeships and make universities less accessible, in a
country where smart kids already must endure being bullied for understanding the
curriculum! Put all that in today’s international reality. I think you can do
your own math my dear reader, to realise what a bad idea that is. As for you my
dear future historian, I wander what you’d have to .
Stay safe and take care.
5/16/2024
I had no words for what I am
There was no words that I knew for what I am when I was growing up.
I grew up in the 80s in Greece. My mother was attending a Christian cult.
I knew gay people exist. But bisexual wasn't in any vocabulary I had heard.
I knew autistic people with learning disabilities exist. I didn't know I was autistic.
I was just confused.
Me, late 80s
4/18/2024
Dissidents-Tube
‘Hello, Orlando. Please, confirm your DOB and your postcode, then sign here, before we can proceed.’ The 43Bot moved closer, stretched out its arm, and put a tablet right under their nose . Orlando had never seen such an old model before. Beep, pause, beep-beep.
‘Make it stop. Please, make it stop,’ Orlando said, hands pressed against their temples.
‘You are late for the interpersonal therapy meeting, and the one-to-one daily evaluation.’ Beep, pause, beep-beep.
‘Inter-what? I won’t sign anything before you stop that mental sound.’
The last thing they remembered was falling on the station’s pavement, while chasing the train. Beep, pause, beep-beep. A thought. T he marks on my leg! Orlando got flashbacks. One at a hospital, during an X-ray, and one in a dark room without any windows, and many beds around. They remembered trying to scratch their nose. They remembered their hands being tied up.
‘Female, 33 years old, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, fibromyalgia, ADHD, OCD, and PDA.’ Its voice was glitching a bit.
2/29/2024
Thus spoke Lotous
“Someone
somewhere, at
some point... opened a book. And
as s/he turned, or
scrolled, in the first
page, imagined... and
created
a book
a story
an entire Universe. And, the
page wrote:”
Someone
somewhere, at
some point... opened a book. And
as s/he turned, or
scrolled, in the first
page, imagined... and
created
a book
a story
an entire Universe. And, the
page wrote:
In the beginning was
Logos (Word). And,
Logos said...
From the beginning basically there is
Logos and since then
says...
...is telling
Stories!
The World was actually made so
Stories can be
told.
In the beginning it was
Chaos. Others say it was
Chronos, and others believe it was
Ananke (Necessity) that came first.
Others say
Eros (Cupid.) Or, maybe
Nyx (Night?)
And, one of the first
Stories starts with
Gaia, and a few more
gods.
And then, somewhere
there, in the same
story,
Thanatos (Death) was also born.
And, all the
Stories are connected with each other. And, after all
the Beginning eventually loses its meaning.
I wonder what existed before
the Beginning? Before
Logos; before
Chaos,
Chronos and
Ananke,
Eros, or
Nyx? Before
any positive,
negative, and
balancing force? Before
the Big Bang? Maybe,
a Cosmic egg? (Or the hen that did the
egg?) Or, as most prefer,
a god; or, why not,
a goddess. Maybe,
the One Suchness of Alan Watts or
the One. Rather
the 42! Probably
Nothing; or just,
there was no Before at all. Definitely though, there were no
Stories!
The Beginning...
Already basically, with once upon a time, the
Story has begun.
Stories, as we have mentioned,
are wibbly wobbly, timey wimey,
are interconnected. Because, they presuppose, from
the beginning, and maybe by definition,
a past,
a background... something, that the author can build the plot on.
Maybe, the next generations will laugh at our
idea of one-way continuous in space-time, as much as we do on the
idea of a flat Earth. And
maybe, the real
beginning is somewhere in the middle.
Where the
Story
begins. And, the
prehistory is build only
after.
After.
Heavy word is
After. It
always curries all our hopes, and
all our fears.
Always
Heavy word is
Always.
Them who can curry
Always shall Live
Forever
Pic by deartreehouse
2/24/2024
One
Once upon a time, Just a bit before the BigBang, the One felt the desire to become many. Thus, everything began.
Μια φορα κι ενα καιρο, λίγο πριν το Big Bang, το Ενα ενοιωσε την "Επιθυμια" να γίνει "πολλά" . Κι έτσι άρχησαν όλα.