[FRIAM] mental imagery

[Marcus Daniels]

The moral failing is letting the fog of fear take over, and fabricating any story that seems to work to rationalize it. The hate and fear of immigrants on the blue collar side is giving way to hate and fear of AI on the white collar side. 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen <gepropella at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
To: friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] mental imagery 

I love that we're sticking to the thread, but in a hermeneutic way. An inability to envision is akin to an inability execute Lean 4 code. If you don't have the hardware, you can't run the computation. The same could be said about entitled college students or the poor sods who've never benefited from a hero dose of Ψ. I credit Fanon for teaching me that relatively vapid things like the No Kings protest are inadequate for the victims of genocide. Perhaps Israel was destined to be genocidal. "For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists."

Steve's use of "conceit" often confuses me. If I replace it with "controlling idea" ... or, better, "occult controlling idea", then it seems like agency is *the* conceit of our modern times. Framing one's inability to compute as a moral failing feels akin to blaming the victim. But what choice do we have? We absolutely must, and always do, blame the victim. Right? If you're aphantasic, then it's clearly because you're too lazy to put in the effort.

On 11/26/25 8:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Rather the IP has some defensive function at the population level for protecting valuable things from a population that values nothing beyond their own comfort.

On 11/26/25 8:15 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> I mean, yeah, preach on. For some it's nothing more than a Holiday in Cambodia.

On 11/26/25 7:53 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On the other hand, we might (also?) just be apes picking nits out of one another's furry thoughts? Which is it's own mode of coercion/engagement?
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