Curated chaos - vol.9 🛸🌍🌐🧠👁️
Transmissions from the global brain
Hello. It’s time for your semi-regular injection of mind-expanding, soul-enlivening miscellanea, collected on my adventures through cyberspace.
I’m experimenting with a more stripped-back format than usual today. Just titles. No summaries or reflections.
Serving suggestion: Scroll with gay abandon. Pick 1-3 links that pique your interest. Nonchalantly discard the rest.
THINGS TO READ
On befriending kids
Try asking people why things matter to them
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: What the humans like is responsivenessPolitical analysis needs more witchcraft
Also see: General Butt Naked, MAGA Exorcisms, and the Politics of Witchcraft
The horseshoe theory of psychedelics
What if the artistic impulse is wisdom from the future?
Everyone is numbing out
How tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world
Japan’s radical alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
Loosely related: How is the rise of self-advocacy challenging traditional notions of authority?
Are you charismatic or charming?
The end of productivity
Why every room needs something weird to make it pop
Stephen Fry on AI
We need a new kind of education: Imagination studies
Also see: Practical imagination
Re-enchanted decision-making
Mind wrinkles
Rejection isn’t personal
Backwards magical contagion
Stop making sense
The age of the double sell-out
Also by W. David Marx: The missing piece in conversations about “cultural decline”
Dreams from the third reich
The myth of the loneliness epidemic
Altered consciousness, embodied Practices, and the power of rhythm
Scientists say our consciousness may actually be altering reality
Hard rain drops: Navigating the weirdness
The ecstatic swoon
On joy and sorrow
OTHER COOL AND INTERESTING STUFF
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American
30 minutes of adverts directed by David Lynch
