pain is an impulse, literally, and the moral question surrounds the acceptable signal-noise ratio: how much information vs interference does pain bring?

NB: this is not just a question of pain's intrinsic qualities but also of calibration

https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1756621964368576901

as regards innervation, there are those among us who are victims of our own cleverness:

imagine he who attains the complete dominance of the visual, for whom the image of bruising and blood suffices to define the reality of the body

does he need pain?

pain does precisely one thing: direct your attention pain leads to suffering insofar as one attends to the pain and judges it unwanted

such a trip to listen to this DJ mix i did in 2009 and remember "oh yeah this 'mnml tech' shit was so cool back then" mixcloud.com/nav-audio/nav-… even listening today, mnml-tech feels like the end of an era in some way. last gasp of a dying scene. not sure what happened to it. nobody plays this stuff anymore. maybe it'll get a retro revival in the 2030s.

wow this is like a perfect case study i can't blame the guy at all for lacking ambition because, yknow, what broad cultural mythologies do we even have to participate in, these days?

hot take (wrong): loudness wars mastering compression is downstream of cheap, low-headroom amplifiers on mobile devices, where 1980s-style masters would simply not get loud enough at max volume for proper enjoyment next playlist should be "songs that sound really great on highly dynamic speaker systems" and everyone listening on their bluetooth headsets will be like "idgi"