179 - Why Do We Have to Do Things that We Do Not Want to Do?

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Words of the year.  The etymology of authentic. JDO talks about getting a bunch of birthday cards. Visual novels.

Mother Killed by Shark. Do You Know Where Your Parents Are? The inverse of a viking helmet. Pharrel’s Dudley Do Right hat.

What about all the good things cults have done? The strangeness of time. Every Wednesday is the same Wednesday.

Going full Bartleby. The singularity of the scrivener. Why do we have to do anything? Yielding sovereignty. Imperative. Septic tanks in the country.

Dunce cap questions are important. Extremists show us that we don’t *have* to do anything. Acquiescence to the must.

Chores we like vs. chores that we do. The satisfactory service of Chik-fil-A. The theory of logical types. Staying in the emblematic groove of our lives.

Becoming a collective requires having your own agency first. Fascination with samurai and yakuza. Gatsby’s dead-on commentary on class. Not fitting in with the upper-middle-class literary establishment.

Every president tries to convince you that they were born in a log cabin they built themselves.

JDO’s imaginative challenge involves the personification of Tabbo.

How can we take music to the level of sound? What does that mean for a whole range of things?

Power is a problem.