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The Nature of Poly-Existentials (2019) (by-star.net)
17 points by nanomonkey on Dec 8, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This is such a weird rambling document. Like, just in the cold opening its going out of its dressing the IP discussion in the political terminology of someone with a vaguely nationalist agenda, calling it the "Western Intellectual Property Regime". The random headings of Persian text just adds to the perception of that undertone. But then it takes a strange internationalist bent, contorting itself to define "globish" (which is really nothing more than the international English everyone uses for global trade, but cross out "England" and write "globe" everywhere). As a document it seems to spend inordinate amounts of time defining already established and tangential concepts in the most obtuse and verbose way imaginable before even trying to circle back to making some sort of logical case. It has a strong wiff that the core argument is going to be a word game. The argument is probably bad but good luck digging through the terminology to find the flaw. It feels like the sort of long, rambling, maybe crazy maybe genius document that news reporters will one day refer to as a "manifesto". I can't imagine who it was written for. It sounds academic, but it certainly wouldn't show up in a journal.


I passed this on to consultants at scientology, and several right oriented edge groups. When I get their analysis, I'll be able to see this original text in a better, much clearer light ideally somebody exclaiming "nailed it! what took us so long to type that up?" /sarcasm




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