As all thinking is emergence, we must realize that thinking is a form of emergency. In the modern moment, however, this fact has become comically hyperbolic. To think at all is an emergency. And thus, we need to know a few things about the difference between actual thinking, and forking each others’s minds over with terror (advertising, tree-error, and so on) — otherwise known as lying or mimcry. Actions that appear to be thinking, but are actually something else. Theft, injustice, murder… rape… silencing… and so on. Elaine Scarry is a lot less scary than our culture … and is an excellent guide to thinking… in emergence Y. Get some. Now.

As all thinking is emergence, we must realize that thinking is a form of emergency. In the modern moment, however, this fact has become comically hyperbolic. To think at all is an emergency.

And thus, we need to know a few things about the difference between actual thinking, and forking each others’s minds over with terror (advertising, tree-error, and so on) — otherwise known as lying or mimcry. Actions that appear to be thinking, but are actually something else. Theft, injustice, murder… rape… silencing… and so on. Elaine Scarry is a lot less scary than our culture … and is an excellent guide to thinking… in emergence Y.

Get some. Now.