Mastodawn

Some *light* reading -- history and prophecy...

I read #FrankWaters "#TheBookOfTheHopi" many years ago, but misplaced my old copy. Refreshing myself on #HopiProphecy and what it all means for the times we are living in.

#EricCline's "#1177BC" has been a good read. I'm finding his chapter about a "perfect storm of calamities" to be relevant to the age we are living in now, especially with regard to #ClimateCrisis and #Polycrisis.

Graeber/Wengrow's "#TheDawnOfEverything" has taken me a while to get through... So much to take in. Learning about power and systems of power and their origins.

"The Occult Features of #Anarchism" by #EricaLagalisse also deals with systems of power -- and how #MutualAid is part of true autonomy (I agree).

#Bookstodon #AmReading #ReadWithPride #BannedBooks #ToBeBanned? #ReadWhileItsStillLegal #BigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Feb 12

#DavidGraeber, an American #anthropologist and #anarchist activist, was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1961. He studied under #MarshallSahlins, helped drive the #OccupyWallStreet movement, and wrote important and influential books like #TheDawnOfEverything, #BullshitJobs, & #Debt.

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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 12

@sfwrtr
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strong parallel here with what they called in #TheDawnOfEverything the actuarial sense, that modern people don’t see the damage they do to people.

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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 3

Hey, is anyone here on a site along with the surviving David, Wengrow, Twitter, Bluesky?
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would you send the above definition along to him, please? 💜💜💜
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#TheDawnOfEverything #ND #ActuallyAutistic #TheDawnOfEverything #Philosophy

Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 3

I give people too much credit, it takes me a long time to figure someone is stupid, but Good Lord, I mean Lady, I am casting my pearls before a world of stupid.
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I have a lot of deficits, there are a lot of things I struggle to learn, most things really, but I don’t struggle with what the Davids informed me in #TheDawnOfEverything are called actuarial matters like most of the world does. It seems straightforward to me, I’m far too stupid elsewhere to think I’m a genius (and anyway my IQ doesn’t approach “genius,” officially), but Good Lady, it’s either that or the vast majority has a really short spike for that, and in adulthood, often none at all.
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Just like Temple Grandin has a theory of a cow’s mind and could see things happening the regular cattlemen couldn’t, that’s me about people, that’s the actuarial sense, a non-Allistic theory of mind about people, seeing what the environment does to people.
I’m not sure if it’s right to say Grandin’s sense about cows is the actuarial one, or if that word is just for people. It would be cool to ask them.
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I suppose it is right, we don’t have senses that are just “about,” certain things and not others, do we? It’s not the object that defines it.
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So, change of definition, it’s larger than just knowing what the environment does to people, it works with other minds too, I think the actuarial sense is just a non-Allistic (not authority based) Theory of Mind.
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And again, there’s more complexity, because many Allistics have it, and can deal with horses and such. It is mostly only absent regarding people! When we see someone trying to apply the severely Allistic theory of mind they talk about when they’re talking about Autistic people with a horse or a cat, we know they’re being stupid, even they do.
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But mostly, as regards people, they don’t see the stupid.
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#ND #ActuallyAutistic #TheDawnOfEverything #Philosophy

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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 2

While I’m on the subject of me being wrong, I wrote a big one and got some love for writing that creationism is old school and evolution is new because stone tools are old and farming is new - I consider that all backwards and Allistic now, evolution is life and of coarse life knowledge predates tools.
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Now to me, the idea of the creationist toolmaker’s myth, that things have makers and purposes, it’s strong, but it is still new and probably Allistic. I don’t have a specific strong argument for this right now, but this is my default on the #AutisticScience side of the looking glass, life first. 💜
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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 2

I had bought in, I think I wrote blogs with the idea that we desensitized ourselves about the livestock first and then adapted that attitude for people, but that doesn’t fit anymore, the desensitization starts at home, about people first.
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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 2

just stimming, mind ya business 😈
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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama Feb 2

I don’t think it’s about pastoralists, about animal husbandry leading to war, the causality looks the other way around to me, a warrior wants a horse. I don’t think that’s the big conflict, like it is in Ishmael. #TheDawnOfEverything painted a different picture, those were all the same people, sort of.
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I think.
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