I think it’s hard to feel Barfield until you come to the conclusion that we can’t solve societies problems through better data or stricter control.
You have to get tired of looking for enemies.
Artists talking about art should probably be saved, mostly, for talking to other artists. I find so much of it incredibly boring these days because I there's too much of it and it is geared to the normies who think the artist is infallible.
ChatGPT? Why, when I was a kid, we had something like that—it would pretend to know everything while just ripping off other people’s ideas and making shit up. We called him DAD, AM I RIGHT?!?!
Twitter mitigates the need to find similar weirdos in my own geographic area, which means people aren’t stuck with their local weirdos. However, it also means I talk to you people more than my friends.
Does this app ever automatically follow anyone on your behalf? There’s been a couple of people lately who I checked out but thought I did not follow and then I see that I am following them.
Captain obvious speaking through me:
Using fake, AI generated photos in "news reports" is wildly irresponsible. The only way for an organization with a pretence of doing journalism could let that happen is if they have already fully committed to mass deception.
Let me be translucent to God. Only in God's light, shining through me, can I be my best, individual self. Though I be a glass darkly, yet still I refract God.
I think meaning is a personal and individual thing. If we act as though meaning imbues our actions and creations with never-ending, universal value, I think we are open to great meaninglessness. Meaning is when an individual cursed with temporality can glimpse the eternal.
We all have different orientations to time—living in the pat, living in the future, living in the NOW, or some mix. I can't figure mine out. I kind of feel like I live in an imaginative mental state that's not quite any of those things.
Evil must be (and will be) dealt with. Not because if it’s obvious harms, but because of all things, it is the one that can’t be balanced—Can’t be brought into balance.