Prince Vogelfrei

@princevogelfrei.bsky.social

Searching for the deepest possible conviction

The social mechanics by which appreciation is spoken and felt have been degrading, leaving money as one of the few ways people reliably feel appreciated. The decay of non-monetary coordination mechanisms is downstream of the decay of language

Would anyone like to hire my brother? He's - As smart as I am - Conscientious - trustworthy - startup/0-1 product director/manager - PhD/work experience in design research - actually great intuitions about people moving through systems - does weighted pistol squats for reps

The standards for being tricky or a good liar in the past were just remarkably low. Our society has a genius of suspicion only occasionally equalled by a handful of high courts. Modern man would be more likely to triumph in the past by deception than any sort of technical science

When you were young, the world was as a dream. It made no sense, and yet was all there was - and so you attended to it as a perfect student, absorbed completely, aware only of the raw feeling of mastery, rather than the proxies which permeate most modern learning.

Creatures heavily extended in space, exo-memories scattered to many corners, roots grown into wide idea spaces, do not excel at the mode of activity Arendt called action - cannot be bird like, all 'drama' becomes ungainly, awkward. The rhizomatic extension of the human being is the end of history