Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:38:15

There is a pretty persistent ambient hate in England, a lot of people say vile shit about Muslims or immigrants or whatever, but in my experience most people aren't actual white supremacists. They have a black friend who they get a beer with. One of the good ones. Etc.

Like the tide, it comes in and it washes over the beach. It's beautiful. But like the tide it goes out, sometimes it goes out further than it ever has, it recedes back across the beach and further out beyond the horizon. The bare seabed opens up in front of you and all you can do is look at it.

have you read

mazelike/rhizomatic/immanent/emergent are not antithetical to a transcendent real but its very manifestation

and so on. not wanting the rhyming / clanging
we can only engage in such a way