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1 Jan

hey just on a quick serious note, as i guess this is part of my situation i have not mentioned for a while, if 2022 is the year youre trying to get straight and stop drinking and smoking weed all the time or doing drugs or something, you can do it even though it seems difficult

in fact in the beginning it seems impossible. u can still do it though. to be totally honest if you are a drug and intoxication based person, as in, that is what your general vector of energy has been pointed towards for some time, it might be the hardest thing you have ever done

but you can still do it though. i got off easy because i stopped drinking but then just replaced it with weed. once i stopped doing that i feel like honestly it took like a year and a half for the iron grip of it to release and for it to not be weird being sober with other people

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31 Dec 21

if u dont know already, if u see a footnote or background historical note for something unless u actually go check + prove to urself that its real you should not believe it. once i started following footnotes and looking into it people literally just make things up all the time.

before the internet + searchable texts, i mean they probably still do it now, people apparently just made up church father quotes and stuff quite often. most times i have attempted to source a strange augustine quote for example the only thing that comes up is the book im reading

i have often wondered the concrete mechanism at play here like, if some guy 200 pages into a book before control+F searchable type existed just said “eh no ones actually going to check this” and started winging it, or if many fake quotes and documents were circulating, or what.

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29 Dec 21

theres some fascinating inverse correlation for how the pop caricature of liberals and conservatives relate to individuals vs groups that i can almost articulate but cant. ie liberals are supposed to be worried about “offending” but this only applies to groups of people. [...]

in practice whenever im around them they invariably assume aspects of your own worldview are actually extremely offensive without even pausing for a second to consider it. likewise the pop caricature about conservatives is that they dont care about helping others. [...]

but to whatever extent this is true, this also only relates to groups and likewise has an inverse correlation with their relationship to individuals. if i had a flat tire i could probably wait on the side of the road where im from (liberal) for days and no one would stop to help.

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28 Dec 21

hello my friends. how you you. still half on half off for the holidays but i thought it would be cool to do a [RECAP] thread for what we got done this year, as we are gearing up for the craziest year at the studio yet (next year). lets do it. flashback. montage. roll the tape:

https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1358240920580284416

will probably just slowly continue this thread until the new year.

i think this was the first thing i dropped this year: the inverted soviet propaganda series. honestly this took forever, but im really happy with how it ultimately turned out. heres the thread:

https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1358240920580284416

the weird thing that happens when you have something cooking for months is that you always want more of a response, but people were really into it. i thought they turned out really well:

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28 Dec 21

one of my favorite closed loop / back door thought implications that is never discussed is that telling someone they dont have the credentials to fully understand or analyze something cuts both ways. its used to dismiss doubt but it also consequently dismisses certainty.

said more simply, if someone doesnt have the background knowledge or degree or credentials to question something, that also means they dont have the means to accept it - intelligently anyway. “you’re not equipped to analyze this” goes way farther than the way its normally used.

ie if im questioning something about the geological record, and i say, does this really make sense? and someone says, well, youre not a geologist, what do you know- thats actually an admission that you’re asking me to take what you perceive to be true on faith, to just believe it

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27 Dec 21

now that the first day of christmas is over i feel pretty good weighing in on the “what do you tell your kids about santa” situation. im going to tell owen jr “i dont know” and use it as a learning experience for figuring out something society wide and mythological for yourself.

a big part of our theory of children here comes from steiner, so, on one hand the magic of childhood thing and kids living in a somewhat imaginary world and experiencing things on those terms is relatively central, yet i also am not comfortable “straight up lying”, to be harsh.

therefore i am extremely confident in this approach. told my wife to do whatever she wants. for the record i used to work around kids and this was the approach i took if they asked about certain ancient stories or mythology, in certain situations, if it was prudent to do that.

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