https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/mans-age-old-belief-in-serial-immortality/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/mans-age-old-belief-in-serial-immortality/comment-page-1/#comment-2632215 L. C. Rees Sun, 27 May 2018 00:05:32 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43529#comment-2632215 An “absolute nuclear” family type offers a unique angle on our world: it leaves its unique Angles alone without the comforting constriction of all those cousins. This makes unique Angles uniquely vulnerable to the most capital-M me of these Me decades: Save the Cat. All unique Angles want to save that cat, if only to have its warm, purring, fickle company to stave off the absolute zero of absolute nuclear reactions and that chill wind blowing off the North Sea. All unique Angles want to be that cat and be saved by Dennis Quaid in a 90 degree turn from their ANF anomie. Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot offered such a unique angle to the 3 Unique Angle’s that saw it during its original theatrical run. It was an inflection point that trapped America in a United State of infinite recursion: whereas before Spock was a gateway drug to infinite diversity in infinite combinations, now he’s a prop to help Chris Tiberius Pine find himself by saving interstellar cats. The final frontier is a Groundhog Day in Iowa. With cats. The name-shub that will free unique Angles from the me of guilt over the fate of felines, that sharp 45 degree turn that will lead them toward the me-freeness that leads other cultures to view the death of cats with a healthier dose of indifference, humor, or non-judgemental menu planning, has not yet been been found. Not even tail-call recursion can save you now.

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