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the idea of this thread seems kinda romantic--in hegel-like speak, you start off in an immediate relation to the world; you grow, acquire knowledge and your relation becomes more mediated; one result of this is that you get the sense that you lost something when you passed out of the immediate, and you make a festish of it.
there's no going back.
unless you go the route outlined in that fine film "pi" which involves an electric drill and a forehead. after that, the birds are quite lovely. of course, you cant tell anyone about it.....
on the other topic at hand, i am not sure that self-preservation can be mapped onto self-interest--one being a category used to formalize and explain certain types of responses to a phycial environment, and the other being a kind of vague term for types of action (a kind of mitve for huamn acts, a way of bundling cognitive acts)--is not obvious.
just wanted to point out a problem.
back to watching blow up.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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