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and i guess my own weird proclivity about talking about pic rel and so on kind of makes sense now also, and apologies for the cringe takes along the way to getting here. so i guess it's Indra's Pinball Game.

i will perhaps try another metaphor here: what i am asking for is something like the pinball's discovery of the existence of a pinball machine, and that beyond that the thing with which to identify itself is neither its own being-ball, nor being-machine, nor being-in motion, but the player itself playing the game. between the ball and the player is some relation that is worth puzzling out, but again: i think it's more appropriate to think of ourselves as spending much of our lives not even realizing that we are pinballs.

pinball psychology, at least in my own case, makes a lot of sense. essentially that there is a kind of need to radically reinterpret what being-in-the-world means in an age of simulation, speed and technology.