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This is my coinage for the next step up from solopsism. Where the solopsist sees only one person in the universe, the two-actor theorist sees two: himself, and everybody else. It expresses itself in logic like "I can be mean to you because someone was mean to me this morning.
I rather suspect that modern urban living nourishes this sort of thinking. Our emotiional reactions aren't built for so many random anonymous encounters, so we cram "other person" into one team, to be handled collectively.
I find this concept useful enough that I suspect someone else must have coined a less-ungainly phrase for it already.
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flammable:inflammable
regardless:irregardless
Genuity:ingenuity
eros:Aneros
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I like biking no-hands--it reminds me of how mysterious the way a bicycle works is. With my hands on the handlebars, I can succumb to the illusion that steering a bike is as linear and rational as driving a car. Let go of them, and the steering is by magic. I need to go left, and there's a little twitch of my hips, a little shift of my balance, and the bike angles off to my left. I don't understand what just happened. It makes me feel powerful and humbled all at once.
I wonder if toddlers feel this way about walking. By the time they're big enough to express such emotions, though, they're too blase to notice.
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I am an unregenerate cheese middlebrow. For me, the king of cheeses is extra-sharp cheddar--there's no cheese (and few foods of any kind) that I really enjoy more. My fridge always has cheddar, and usually has some cream cheese, a TJ's chevre log, and a tub of grated romano. I can go months without having the urge to try anything more exotic than those.
This isn't to say that I don't enjoy exotic cheeses--I just don't enjoy them as much those staples.
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It was a very exciting time to be involved in supervillainy. Evil Studies was just finally being taken seriously in academia, and a whole crop of theorists were totally reshaping the way we approach our field.
Dr. Sinistor at Columbia was producing fieldwork suggesting that shooting heroes in the head might prove more long-term effective than elaborate death traps.
At the University of Chicago, Zondor the Argumentative was critiquing the Transhuman Academy's archenemy seeding system that matched heroes to villains of comparable power levels.
And the New Malevolence school out at Berkeley was calling into the question the very foundations of our craft, and starting to argue that the disinterested pursuit of evil was outmoded, and that the modern age called for schemes with the potential for actual personal benefit. Well, that certainly upset a few applecarts, you can be sure!
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