Borges’s Tlön is actually about how renaissance polymaths changed...
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Mar 22, 2025
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Borges’s Tlön is actually about how renaissance polymaths changed the entire world by creating new contexts for understanding the world by imagining “another world” & then that “other world” coming to replace our concept of “this world” & the two are now one & the same.
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They call this “hyperstition” in the Dark Enlightenment world—
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You could just call it “psyops”
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“Well, let’s imagine that the earth actually revolved around the sun, how would that work”
“It’s an interesting idea but wildly heretical & therefore false, it’s funny to think about”
“Yeah... it’s just... a speculative idea... haha”
“It’s an interesting idea but wildly heretical & therefore false, it’s funny to think about”
“Yeah... it’s just... a speculative idea... haha”