The buildings are the same but it's a confluence of nations upon the lands of a defeated people. What has been happening is not the movement of people into a nation, but the delocalization of national boundaries which, as Kalegari expected, will dissolve nationalities. My recent observations however lead me to believe he was oversold on the miscibility of nations.
On the Spirit of a City
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1 year ago
@ndnow12 You know Game theory exist outside poker? This is from Fedor Holtz and Steffen site pokercode "Game theory optimal, or GTO poker strategy, is a strategy that seeks complete balance in the game, making your plays 100% unexploitable by your opponents. This style of poker is the exact opposite of the exploitative poker strategy, which most players from the older generations employ.""
Thr intangibles of 990's Calgary, pathos yet so ordinary. [Pulp fiction 1994]
writing a piece about an experience which might be called deja vous, but is really the subjective identity of expectations and their later realization. The unexpected confluence of a decades old vision and its realization does not make it easier to explain, it only makes it impossible to deny. It does not presage a sustainable social infrastructure. Revisiting a district in my city helped provide reference points to recover memories. This is the subjective "unity of place at a distance of time". Such linguistic paradoxes speak to the asychronous nature of consciousness .
The same downtown edifices were robbed in broad daylight during a recession in 2008. The streets were abandoned. In 2024 they have since been resold and are teeming with foreign nationals by night.
Some things are difficult to express because the nature of the message requires unfamiliar carrier wavelengths. Nevertheless, their unfamiliar format is necessary What we most often observe is often camoflauged by seeming familiarity - and we perennially overestimate our capacity to perceive true reality.