velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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woke up this way
Having always thought myself a free-thinker, I realise that I was led, by my desire to at long last belong somewhere, to acquiesce and affirm things that I didn’t believe to be true.
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internalize the narrative of our own obsolescence
You tell me everyone pisses in the pool, and you’re surprised that I’ve decided I’d rather not swim after all?
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temple of doom
Once you’ve played that way, playing at sensible volumes will always feel disappointing, like how I imagine Formula 1 drivers must feel when they have to do the school run in a sensible family car.
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that one guy rides again
I can think of few people in the pro-AI academic space whose writing betrays such a desperate yet frustrated desire to be affirmed and approved of by those whose ranks he once aspired to join.
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generational hangover
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”