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institutions

I get the feeling that hyperindividualism is destroying institutions.  Yes we still have institutions in name like church and congress but people’s behavior is such that deferring to the institution’s norms is no longer the default.  For example people in...

Fruit Ninja analogy for social interaction

Getting to know someone when you have a mental illness is like the game Fruit Ninja.  In the game you have to slice the fruit while making sure not to slice the bombs that fly up among the fruit.  In this analogy the fruit are the parts of you that you can reveal to...

Mind Game App Store :)

This won’t happen in my life time but once we can upload things to our brains I think they will have a mind game app store.  So you will finally be able to believe in any bullshit you want to, no matter how ridiculous it is.  I could go to church and plug my...

poetry: two, four, and raging

love is like aloha (which means hello and goodbye) it means two opposite things at once God is one but the devil has won i seem quiet what I present is the eye of the storm soon you will see the rest of it I am a rogue planet I don’t orbit any star I just drift...

Lesson: Metadata

Often in social interactions the metadata is the most important and poignant part of the interaction (metadata is the data that precedes and describes the main data).  In the case of social interactions the metadata are things like your age, your gender, your looks,...