yeah, sometimes I forget to remember that everyone's semiotics or language-game or meaning making or whatever you want to call it is different. the lack of empathy on my part was my bad. a fair point.
But, since you asked...
To me, it just seems as your writing has gotten more deliberately esoteric over the course of time. I consider myself at the very least a modestly intelligent person, but I haven't the slightest clue what a "Process God" or "reason on a cosmic scale" means. If we all live in "the cosmos" wouldn't that mean that anything that reasons at all would be reasoning "at the cosmic level", and if so, why not just say, "we are endowed with the ability to apply reason" or something? Isn't reason just impressive enough on its own? Also, (I'm going to be a massive hypocrite for just telling MSM to read metaphorically 2 posts ago but whatever) when you use a sociobiology world like "meta-organism" for its technical application and then turn around and use a chemistry word like "entropy" in a poetic sense, it becomes difficult to tell if I'm supposed to be reading your writing at a literal or metaphoric level.
it just all seems to kind of being veering dangerously close to that old platitude, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit".
when we first met and were shooting the shit about Barthes and Amano and whatever, I had little trouble following you, but maybe it was because I at least somewhat understood your frame of reference...
in any case, I think you're a pretty solid dude, so don't I hope you don't construe this as a personal attack or anything



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