Men of God in the City of Man, Part 2: Carriers
Every virus needs carriers to spread. Even a narrative virus.
We can learn a lot from what they have in common.
Category: Note
Men of God in the City of Man, Part 1: Virus
This is a story about a virus and the gain-of-function research that produced it.
It's not what you think.
Freedom of Speech, Rich Men of Reach
TRIGGER WARNING:
This note will make many readers anxious and angry, because you have been told by the political entrepreneurs of your tribe that nei…
Narrative Derangement Syndrome
Awareness of narrative is a necessary tool for the politically engaged citizen.
Up to a point.
If obliviousness to narrative is the easiest way to …
Language is a Virus: Mike Pence edition
This is not a note about Mike Pence.
This is a note about language.
This is a note about how viral words of *therapy* have infected blue tribe brain…
Men of God in the City of Man, Part 8: Zoonosis
Physical viruses sometimes jump from one species to another.
Narrative viruses sometimes jump from one culture to another.
All it takes is the rig…
Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 7: Mutation
Narrative viruses are not immune to events in reality world - especially when we have made those narratives part of our identity.
And when a narrativ…
Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 6: Pandemic
Surprising outcomes in reality world that seem to confirm a narrative often produce explosive growth in its scale.
But also in its scope.
Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 5: Epidemic
Men of God prophesied as early as 2007 that God would make Donald Trump the President of the United States.
Our narrative virus gave these prediction…
Men of God in the City of Man, Part 4: Epimemetics
Every narrative is built on memes that have evolved and adapted to human culture over centuries.
But some environments change the way that those mem…
The Launch of FiatNews.com
Today we announce the beta launch of FiatNews.com, an Epsilon Theory sub-site devoted to the measurement of opinion content in news.
Our goal? Givin…
Men of God in the City of Man, Part 3: Memetics
In the same way that genetics governs how physical viruses reproduce within a host, memetics governs how narrative viruses reproduce within a culture.…
The United States of Bed Bath & Beyond
A grown man made a wager. He lost. He made another wager. He lost again. End of story.
- Tony Soprano
This is the story of weak men and rapacious me…
An AI in the City of God
The City of Man always wins.
The Visigoths always sack Rome. The Vandals always sack Hippo. Augustine always dies in the siege. Bad things always hap…
Noseblind
The half-life of just about every major news story is one week.
Barring major new developments, practically nothing captures our attention beyond si…
Metaphysics, Consciousness, Nature of Reality: a Thread from the ET Forum
The craziest thing happens when there's no audience, when you're talking with other actual human beings for the right reasons ... you not only have ac…
“Yay, College!” Part 1: The Smiley-Face Super-Villainy of American Higher Education
The modern American system of higher education - especially its most prominent public and private universities - is less our Superman than our Homelan…
Epsilon Theory 2022 in Review – Foundation
2022 was our ninth year of publishing Epsilon Theory. It was also our best.
We're changing the way the world sees the invisible water in which we swi…
The Recipe for Agent Orange – The Projection Racket, Pt. 3
There is a true story of free market capitalism. It is one of humanity's greatest and most important stories.
There is also a myth of free market ca…
The MacGuffin, Part 2: The Story Arc of SBF and FTX
The MacGuffin is the object of desire.
It is the thing around which the plot of the story revolves.
Here is the story arc of SBF and FTX, and the M…