From 7677004b9f6f3d5df1d9cec9ad1e91b46d0ff998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:26:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...irs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md | 4 ++++ ...eres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md | 7 +++++++ post_ideas.txt | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md b/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md index d8a213c..12363d2 100644 --- a/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md +++ b/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md @@ -150,3 +150,7 @@ I had done better than average; most people were starving evolution of traditions, trying to create a Schelling point everyone going to bed at the same time, as an example of everyone being synchronized predictive text driving more of the world; right angles and the aesthetic discernment dimension and the vampires + +people only respond to coalitions, imagining people running around in defensive coalitions + +not trusting Google directions diff --git a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md index 636b16f..5e2ee14 100644 --- a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md +++ b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Category: commentary Tags: discourse Status: draft +> _There's a land that I see +> Where the children are free +> And I say it ain't far +> To this land from where we are_ +> +> —"Free To Be ... You and Me" + > If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to _make it so_, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ. > > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/) diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt index 4aef2ec..97b12c2 100644 --- a/post_ideas.txt +++ b/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ QUEUE 0— +The Nadir of Reading Comprhension +Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009) There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention @@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ FICTION QUEUE— * fictionalized version of the male vs. female rape / War on Optimization for Generalized Secrecy anecdote * Blame Me for Trying * Blindspot +* Freakshow * "Love Like You" * Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels -- 2.17.1