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hmm

saw this weird house today

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trying to strike a balance between making it a safe haven for children and keeping the authentic urban wilderness vibe of asbestos rubble and thickets of toxic thorns

I have been blazing trails in my yard with the Makita 2x18V string trimmer and making little shade nooks under trees and a secret place beneath a brick wall where there's sunshine at 8 PM with three tires to sit on leaned up against old half broken stone crosses and ashtrays on a whole 'nother level

daily life must have its topological pockets where linear todo time dissolves into luscious convivial silence, where preparation precipitates doubtless droplets of valiant valence

the plazas of old cities are paradigm centers, these molten pockets of freedom and leisure that hinder traffic while being also the essential destinations of all movement

a landscape shaped for a thousand years by natural process is astoundingly self-adapted like a deep minimum in a manifold, an immense computation that necessarily, ontologically, yields a field of centers like soap makes bubbles

the stillness and luminous emptiness of centers discloses a dimension of dignity that binds experience and forms its hidden ground, a vast void that is the silent soul of everything

it's some kind of general pattern of good valence, these focal centrifugal emergent vortex pockets of molten resonance that structure coherent fields of living qualia

I am more and more convinced that life must be made of centers, that centers are targets of leisure and annealing, that the centers of life are both geometric and temporal: gardens, temples, festivals, holidays, fire, flowers, meditation, prayer, ritual, gathering, sacrifice, wine, sun, sauna

bouldering the most sisyphean form of leisure

in my idiosyncratic ontology, what I call the petite bourgeoisie are the local characters who don't even have any money but scrape by managing and working on precious zones of autonomy, like the guy who runs the punk sauna and other post-squat chieftains and bartenders

but now I own a little bit of property that seems appropriate to develop according to the ideal of a "precious zone of autonomy" as described in James C. Scott's essay "Two Cheers for the Petite Bourgeoisie"

kind of weird how nation states work on a basic everyday ontology level like they are the fundamental regions of reality but they're all kind of deeply fucked up

tried to came up with a joke but instead came up with a theory that Camus's "Sisyphus" is a symbol of Europe and so "we must imagine Europe happy"

they kind of cornered the market on "reality"

I am become Death

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