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Oct 31, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
📺

rerun of some halloween specials from the last two years:

a. 🎃 ImageImageImageImage
b. 🎃 Image
was really amped about this one. some people said they had trouble reading the font, so i posted it another time with a different typeface but i cant find it rn and must return to baby. this is how it was supposed to look anyway.

happy halloween.
if anyone finds the post i made with the other typeface feel free to post it. otherwise bonus throwback to these holographic stickers i printed of st odilo of cluny who actually got “all souls day” up and running (check it out / DYOR)
🎃📺 halloween TV update: we found the bluebird comic with the other typeface
clearer revamped image of st. odilo which was part of a series of NFTs i did recently, linked here. if it were not for him perhaps it would not even be “halloween” on this day and within our present framework. Image

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birth is one of the only constants that stretches back to the first people. of course, in modern times, all of these constants have an inverted element.

we can model most people's pregnancies and birth experiences as a process of gradually knowing: of gaining information.

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[modernity, spirit, internet dating discourse]

you have attributes: your job, your hometown, your hobbies, your accomplishments, your past, and so on

i generally break up any view of "the self" along an axis. on one end, all that stuff: thats you - or, thats really part of you Image
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yeah, you have a job, stuff you did, stuff you like, where you're from, your family, but that's not really you, maan. your real self is underneath all that. you have go under that, to the real self Image
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a brief recap of the entirety of human history through the lens of:

whats your vibe on being stuck in a jar?

1. post-modern: i would like to get out of the jar

our most recent cultural touchstone for being stuck in a jar is 'the matrix'. here, everyone is in a jar.

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neo gets out of the jar. the jar was a good time, if you're in it, but he was born into the jar. he didn't choose to be in a jar

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[postmodern themes and christian scenes]

jean lyotard, who presumably had an issue with modernity due to sharing his name with a piece of modern sportswear, gave a great and succinct definition for "postmodernism":

postmodernism is incredulity towards metanarratives.

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thats it. i like this definition because its brief, and cuts right to the heart of one of the most broadly and confusingly used terms online these days. it really pins down the vibe of "postmodernism is just ... like... taking things apart, sort of, i guess", that you get online Image
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metanarratives. its not the exact definition he used, but a metanarrative is basically the overarching story that gives events, small parts of stories, larger meaning. its like the overall story that small events take place in
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this was one of “the” topics on here yesterday. i have no opinions or knowledge about this guy.

the function of propaganda isnt to convince people of something. thats what propaganda is like in movies.

in reality, one main function of propaganda is “perceptual narrowing”.

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real propaganda generally isnt like that. people are generally already convinced.
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