Oddbean new post about login | logout "Isn't that what *language* is about?"🥇 https://image.nostr.build/48e0578316e4543f5fffa39aa67ec3537cc70f6e4b2779e149abb4ed6e85f96e.png
imaginary lines are used to box you in as much as see the door, intent is everything (as is your mental state) manipulators use these imaginary lines to cage you when these lines fail to stop you they use physical lines and force
I get it as if that is what settlements are made of... An always give and take between the dweller and the world (this last taken as both the nature and the neighbors even if settled far apart). At Rainer's oikology indeed those lines fluctuating between imagination and reality could be taken as root condition for the making of civilization regardless if nomadic or sedentary... What do we domesticate with the use of language? A common field of agreement between dwellers and the world, I guess...
