Book Review: Sadly, Porn
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Is It the Same as a Tarro Card?
Lacan's theory is that if you have some concept it's easy for people to get wrong, might you transmit with higher fidelity if you're hard to understand? For example, suppose that the idea has many interlocking pieces, and each piece gives a clue about the nature of every other piece. After all, something i learned when writing this review, lacan admitted to being deliberately obscurantist. He said freud was easy to understand, so everyone read the text without deep thought, then misinterpreted it. There are hundreds of millions of people who take the bible completely literally and read it every day. The bible describes very clearly what angels look like. Everyone agrees the bible is
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