This makes me think of like a Kleinian psychoanalytic thing where the medium is both the go-between with the real world but also the medium is itself mother, as in, womb-conditions; and how "immediacy" is the elision of the mother-as-person getting in the way of unrestricted access to "Mother."

Closing my eyes at the dinosaur fossil exhibit because that's "not part of His vision."

Jennifer Burns wrote a biography of Milton Friedman where she argued that he should be thought of less as an economist per se than a "philosopher of freedom," which is to say, a persuasive framer of American hegemony as "meritocracy." This role of justifying status quo is archetypal, imo.

Yes. Imo the discipline isn't more than a shell game intended to decouple "extrinsic" considerations from decisions that would be obviously short-sighted and calamitous in any other analysis. It is practically a priestly caste meant to sanctify folly.

I have boundless love in my heart for Jason Voorhees on HRT. 🫡

This is like when you realize that Economics is basically a boutique discipline meant to somehow predict human behavior without accounting for Political Science, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Media Studies, etc. and etc. and etc....

This is like reading the Plugged In review for The Righteous Gemstones and realizing that Evangelicals found it hilarious and basically unobjectionable because they perceived it as Liberal pastor confession hour.

Every liberal thinks they're Benoit Blanc, chuckling under their breath at the stupid yokels while magnanimously granting that if a Catholic boy is sweet and naive enough, maybe the faith-havers will be all right, those rascals

Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's Teeth, by Maxfield Parrish

But have you considered that you were correct too early, which is cheating?

Call it restrained by character limits then. I do think abstruseness (of the "manifesto") is a feature rather than a bug

This entire thread so strongly makes me think of Hannah Zeavin's new book Mother Media. Even extrapolating from the notion of mother as media to "immediacy" being unrestricted access to mothering. To keep in the psychoanalysis theme, Freud's essay "Great Is Diana of the Ephesians" also touches here.

And he knew right from the start how unholy it was

"How do you do fellow poors?"