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Economic Nationalism, Nietzsche and AGI, Normativity: My Tenth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Avalon Exposition Sessions

It's rational, not self-interests clashing, The nation's an economic lever, Enough of free traders' nation-bashing! Let's make our land hard-working and clever. Can your synthetic comrade succeed you? Make you a superman when you are dead? Is it your friend or a way to breed you? I like it better than freezing my head. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Eckhart, Buddha, There's a limit past normativity, One sees it in Li Po and Neruda, With both yin and yang it's in privity. I liked Steve as Nietzsche's synthetic friend, May his words like Friedrich's live past his end.

Translating the Untranslatable: My Twelfth Avalon Exposition Session

God's right. Grasses blight. Rivers dry. Cripples cry. Stealing and lying. Killing and dying. Potties and stenches. Bodies and trenches. Trampled is the Word. Truth is the absurd. Captive is the tsar. Risen is the herd. Marina Tsevtsaeva, 1918. With Andrew's help an accursed year I've seen.