Playing chess anonymously is so much better than using an account. Zero elo anxiety and a wild mix of opponents. Plus complete freedom to experiment with unsound, aggressive, fun openings. #chess

“Two loves, then, have made two cities. Love of self, even to the point of contempt for God, made the earthly city; and love of God, even to the point of contempt for self, made the heavenly city.” Augustinus - De Civitate Dei

“Postmodernism is incredibly disembodying” #IvanIllich

Japan would be better off with an immediate expulsion of 90% of foreigners and a 99% reduction in inbound foreigners

The rapid increase in foreigners has made Japan an unpleasant place to live. Most foreigners are unconscionable barbarians.

“Soul-capturing abstractions have extended themselves over the perception of world and self like plastic pillowcases.” #IvanIllich

"Needs are much more cruel than tyrants" #IvanIllich

[Health had come to mean] “the smooth integration of my immune system into a socio-economic world system.” #IvanIllich

“I would like to get … people to think about what tools do to our perception rather than what we can do with them, to look at how tools shape our mind, how their use shapes our perception of reality, rather than how we shape reality by applying or using them. In other words, I’m interested in the symbolic fallout of tools, and how this fallout is reflected in the sacramental tool structure of the world.” #IvanIllich

I have a thought that the mythology of the 21st-century Western people is: the creation myth is the Big Bang. Fortuna Mathamatica brought the world into existence ex nihilo. Her helpers, the angeloi atomoi, flew around, directed by Fortuna, to form the planets and the stars. Evolutina directed the angeloi atomoi to create life on Earth. First came the fish, which then came to land, and then the apes, when one of them was given the secret of fire by Rationa. Rationa also made the ape's body weak but its brain large, giving it curiosity for the world. The ape would become Homo Rationa. Homo Rationa spread throughout the world and lived in harmony with all creatures. The lands were ruled with equity and inclusion by women and People of Color, blessed by Equita and Rationa. Then sin entered the world through one set of fallen Homo Rationa, the White Man. The White Man was approached by Supremesus, the Evil One, and the sworn enemy of Equita, who convinced the White Man to not sacrifice to Equita and instead worship only Rationa along with Supremesus. "If you do this, you will be as gods, and rule over all of the Earth, and all the Earth's creatures and peoples." The White Man introduced an evil doctrine of hierarchy and White supremacy. The White Man also put enmity between Man and Woman by putting the Woman below him in the hierarchy. The White Man went into the world and dominated and oppressed the People of Color, who had lived peacefully and in balance with the evolved order. The sin introduced corruption into the world and enraged Gaia. Gaia decided to destroy the Earth and raise the temperature of the air, threatening to continue unless propitiations were made to Equita and Gaia. At the same time, Equita blessed one of the People of Color, Rosa Parks, who was without sin. She was persecuted by the White Man, but by her sacrifice his wickedness was made known to all, and the Good News of Equity and Inclusion entered the world. In fact, Equita and Gaia promised salvation through the Good News of Equity and Inclusion. The sins of the White Man could be washed away, the biosphere restored, and the Earth returned to a peaceful balance ruled by wise and spiritually grounded female People of Color. But the White Man would not accept the Good News and instead made empty gestures of propitiation to Equita while still secretly worshiping Supremesus. And this is where we are today.

“Into the rivers north of the future / I cast out the net, / that you hesitantly burden / with stone-engraved shadows.” #PaulCelan #IvanIllich

Ignem veni mittere in terram, et quid volo nisi ut accendatur? I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! Luke 12:49 #IvanIlich

I reviewed David Cayley's "Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey", for Stacker News:

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Book Review: Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by David Cayley \ stacker news

Here I am with my second book review in a week. My first was a review of Ivan Illich's "Tools for Conviviality". What started out as an inquiry int...

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“To hell with the future,” “It’s a man-eating idol.” #IvanIllich

"A good tax lawyer found a way of making it credible to IRS that a certain number of cases of ordinary but good and clean wine are my major teaching tool and can, therefore, be written off from taxes." #IvanIllich

"Present institutional purposes, which hallow industrial productivity at the expense of convivial effectiveness, are a major factor in the amorphousness and meaninglessness that plague contemporary society." #IvanIllich

@Maple did you guys adjust the token billing? Allocation is running down a lot quicker since a couple weeks back.

"People need new tools to work with rather than tools tools that "work" for them. They need technology to make the most of the energy and imagination each has, rather than more well-programmed energy slaves" #IvanIllich

“The Antichrist, or let’s say the mysterium iniquitatis, is the conglomerate of a series of perversions by which we try to give security, survival ability, independence from individual persons to the new possibilities that were opened through the gospel, by institutionalizing these.” #IvanIllich

@Maple Kimi has been retarded today. Have you guys lobotomized the service for some reason? Maintenance?