Do you have some sort of vendetta against capitalizing the first word at the beginning of a sentence? Did capitalized words do something unspeakable to you?
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listening to wade davis' the wayfinders, which is an absolutely delightful anthropology book abt different cultures n ways of doing things n what practices survived, or were revived, after colonialism
named after the practice of the polynesian navigators who knew exactly when and where they were in the waters and how to travel between islands n reach as far as tahiti or hawaii based on ultra refined dead reckoning (navigating by star placement). i had heard of such practices before when i read yi-fu tuan's space and place.
seems more n more important as everything becomes more guided towards permanently encasing humanity in the cuck chair (map apps n ai-based trip planning/people can't envision an apple in their own mind anymore, etc. all thoroughly dehumanizing n designed to keep you trapped to your brand-name spyware of choice)
named after the practice of the polynesian navigators who knew exactly when and where they were in the waters and how to travel between islands n reach as far as tahiti or hawaii based on ultra refined dead reckoning (navigating by star placement). i had heard of such practices before when i read yi-fu tuan's space and place.
seems more n more important as everything becomes more guided towards permanently encasing humanity in the cuck chair (map apps n ai-based trip planning/people can't envision an apple in their own mind anymore, etc. all thoroughly dehumanizing n designed to keep you trapped to your brand-name spyware of choice)
Actually, the coconut negroes relied extensively on pure blind chance for much of their ocean-going travels. Many of them perished due to extremely primitive navigation skills. The ones that survived and made landfall were often the ones that lady luck smiled upon.
Unlike the brownoids, Quence would always be properly prepared for an adventure on the high seas of the largest ocean in the world.
EXCUSE ME, that’s a dude! And he’s awfully unprepared.
im reading this--not as insane as the first two volumes imo
absentmindedly clicking around at the gym n got this article recommended to me
the loss of spacial reasoning n increased neuroticism/out-of-placeness caused by outsourcing your ability to figure out where you are via gps
one of the greatest gifts the human mind is capable of is its neuroplasticity n its being thrown away so swiftly
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nah was caused by playing rpgs with quest markers instead of morrowind style like god intended to
i choose to believe it's caused by endless urban sprawl n failure to invest in rural areas, thus lessening the amount of rural people, and by extension rural mail n mail carrying jobs
if you do this job you WILL know which dirt road with the sign shot off you need to turn down by the second day because if you head down the wrong one you will drive into a cavernous pit, acquire a flat tire, and a sweaty hick who smells like hogs n mawmaw's cornbread will show up with a rifle wondering what you're doing on their property
which is to say i know at least 3 different backroad pathways from my house to the retirement village 2 hrs away that don't touch the interstate n i learned them by force