The spur for this blog is to follow-up on the essay I wrote in the mid-2010s.

Why we should : an introduction by memoir into the implications of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic, or, Anyone for cake?

Suggests that many things are outcomes rather than the beginnings of things.

Outcomes of what? It doesn’t really have a good name as yet, the nicknames I give it have been: moral urge, worldbuilding, the normative urge, or more poetically: composing the body/landscape/society from the substance of the terrain. As of 2024 I like ‘to world’ or ‘worlding the self among others in the world thus self-ed’.

¿what is the ethical response to morality? a worldbuilding quest

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I am currently migrating (late 2024) this site to self-hosting at whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com where there may be versions of posts here on substack that are better editedor re-written. I’ll crosspost all new posts.

Self-hosting also gives me a chance to organise pages in groups and topics:

1. The… —gap.

   • Gaps of knowledge, incompleteness of systems, that type of lack and what we feel we should do about them.

2. Janus ratio, what's the point?

   • An attempt to use an old god to do better than throwing stuff into the… —gap.

3. Narcissism & Psychopathy

   • People who are immune to the world think it is all about them.

4. Posts on the world & worlding

   • So then what is the world? In short it is that 'extended phenotype' of kith and kin we live in. The world is the home of all our homes.

   • Examples of people worlding in words in the wild - quotes & discussion.

5. Posts on morality/ethics/worldingbuilding

   • About a subset of outcomes which the 'moral' urge makes us want to organize, norm, and justify. It's worlding, i.e. of the worlding urge, but semi-conscious of its origins, it doubles-down on outcomes.

6. Fideism, churches, religions: devotees versus the empire

   • particular examples in the negative set Posts on morality/ethics/worldingbuilding

     • How we should when we should do better but end up doing religion instead.

7. Posts on writing, consciousness and altered states

8. Posts on 'Art'

9. Posts on punctuation and the mark - including the "/"

10. Posts on the blur - an intentional suspension of judgement or separating out.

11. Posts on the word 'thing'

12. Reactions to papers on evolution~morality

These do not always link back to substack.

elsewhere

meika.loofs-samorzewski.com

meika twitter mastodon or whywe.bsky.social

formeika.wordpress.com

orcid.org/0000-0001-9182-4838

academia.edu