taking your health into your own hands makes you insane because you learn things like: almost all animals make their own vitamin C. we don’t (?), and a chemist, the only guy to win two unshared nobel prizes, took 18 grams of vitamin C a day (200x normal amount) and died at 93:
if you told someone, theres this guy who spent years building up his vitamin C tolerance to 200x the daily dose, the equivalent of eating hundreds of oranges, and what he thought about its role in potentially deadly diseases, you’d be flagged for medical disinformation. his bio:
basically this world class science guy (by their standards) was doing the equivalent of “have you seen how many oranges gorillas eat? we’re basically gorillas”.
read this right now and consider that they tell adult men to get less than a tenth of one gram of vitamin C a day:
in conjunction with @avemariapress and a new book they released, i spent the last few months illustrating the entire structure of the summa theologica, by thomas aquinas.
(here's his post about it). the idea was to render the structure of the summa, as explicated in this book, into a cathedral - somewhat like the large liturgical calendar i illustrated
obviously, i read the book (twice). it's great, i really recommend it
everyone on twitter is posting and talking about this now but if you talked about it while it was happening you were an absolute freak and people would go out of their way to ruin your life in any way possible
you’d be working at a company and there would be a job opening and the hiring manager would straight up tell you they weren’t hiring white guys, and if you told people about this on the outside they would get mad at you. like, personally mad at you. so many stories like this.
people also had no metacognition about it. i had friends who would go to a concert and come back and say, “yeah, it was cool but everyone was white”. i was in a punk band. if you asked, “why are you saying that? i’ve never heard you say that” they had no idea. just took it on.
"therapy" is one of the most engaging topics. it clearly has a polarizing worldview surrounding it - we may look back and see "therapy culture" as the hallmark of this time.
but, something about it is obscure. what is this cloud around "therapy", exactly?
i have one idea.
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one distinction that characterizes many fields over the last century, but has failed to trickle down to normal everyday people, is the difference between modernism and postmodernism.
although this sounds like the lead in to some academia, this distinction is essential.
to oversimplify: modernism is, basically, the first half of the 1900s. modernism as a project can be likened to building a big tower. we just got rid of all the "old worldview" stuff holding us back, and with our new tools, all our fields and knowledge are going to come together
american halloween theology: the philosophical mythology of insane clown posse
folk religion generally defies strict boundaries. it is, by definition, often fully enmeshed with aspects of a cultural landscape.
it is in this spirit that we briefly look at the insane clown posse.
the insane clown posse was originally known as the inner city posse, and made music far more aligned with the typical themes of rap and hip hop. based in detriot, they realized that pursuing this path would just lump them in with east and west coast artists, hindering them.
it is worth noting that detroit is, obviously, not a neutral place. in the american mind, detroit stands as a former manufacturing el dorado, which died, succumbing to various forces, and leaving a shell of itself behind. this may or may not be true, but thats part of its mythos.
as i've paused comics to finish my next book, and am working on getting holiday stuff going, it's been cool to revisit some projects. in this thread i'll repost one from 2021: the inverted propaganda series
propaganda has always been an interesting concept to me as someone who makes images, and in the "propaganda" folder, it's hard to get more heavy hitting than soviet.
fittingly for my general interests, a lot of it is about religion. here are some examples:
i was looking at these one day and was thinking that the visual devices in them were very strong - look at this one below. in fact, the communication is so strong that you could easily flip the pieces around and invert their message. so, i decided to do that.