Fire Your Hopium Dealer
Hope and fear are the same fiction with different endings. Neither one is happening. You do not live in the future — you manufacture history, one artifact at a time. … readFire Your Hopium Dealer
Tag: surprise
What Is a First Time
A first time is treated as an event with more in it than the ones that follow. Nothing in the event is different. Derived from the two halves of the Arrow Theorem’s antecedent, a first time is a reading taken where expectation holds no term — which is why nothing is lost at the second time, and why no first time can be arranged. … readWhat Is a First Time
The Quiet Attention Hears
Attention can be stolen by absence when Reality withholds the sound, answer, or gesture an expectation had already made room to receive. … readThe Quiet Attention Hears
The Index Attention Rewrites
Attention appears when the actual world forces a private index to move a familiar thing into a new category. … readThe Index Attention Rewrites
The Kiln Attention Enters
Attention gathers where Reality fires an expectation hard enough to show what can survive contact with the actual world. … readThe Kiln Attention Enters
The Route Attention Takes
Attention is the mind rerouting through Reality when the road drawn by expectation no longer reaches the actual situation. … readThe Route Attention Takes
The Key Attention Changes
Attention is stolen when Reality changes the key of a situation, making the old expectation harmonically unusable. … readThe Key Attention Changes
The Forecast Attention Breaks
Attention arrives when the private forecast inside a person fails, and Reality has to be faced as weather rather than scenery. … readThe Forecast Attention Breaks
The Garden Attention Enters
Attention is not drawn to the biggest fact in the garden. It moves toward the place where Reality grows through the expectation that tried to contain it. … readThe Garden Attention Enters
The Lens Attention Looks Through
The Actual does not win attention by being loud. It wins when it passes through a private lens of expectation and lands somewhere the self did not prepare to see. … readThe Lens Attention Looks Through