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ananda

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March 6, 2026

A little philosophy from Wittgenstein and Plato.

"All there is is the case." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't like Wittgenstein that much, but that line
nailed it. And here we are...

Also, Plato's Cave allegory really speaks to me
these days.

I think of the human mind/brain as the projector,
and the cave wall as the screen... which is the
world as that mind sees it.

Thus, the logical conclusion is that many faulty
brains have projected a world with false or inaccurate
images which they believe are true...

And they have forced on us a bizarre, violent real world
based on those images

Here I should add Jean Paul Sartre... no escape.

It's like going down the rabbithole into a nighmaris
NeverNeverLand that we can't escape from ... because
we have operated from truth and clearsightedness,
and an ability to foresee what's to come.

January 6, 2021

Remember Chicago 68?

That really hurt the Democrats.
But we barely managed to hang on over the years.

This today will absolutely kill the GOP.

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