West Wing S7 E 11 "Internal Displacement"<br /> http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=145<br /> written by Aaron Sorkin & Bradley Whitford

A powerful quote about what really matters in America

Is some of the "backlash" against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in 2020s America a manifestation of attempting to prevent a shift in the status quo of class structure in America?

How is the history of the space potentially useful in easing the potential transition to something better?

for - BEing journey - Anil Seth - BEing journey - Dream machine

reference - https://dreamachine.world/about/

for - dream theory - dreaming as default state of brain

• Dreaming can be seen as the "default" position for the activated brain
• when it is not forced to focus on
  • physical and
  • social reality by
    • (1) external stimuli and
    • (2) the self system that reminds us of
      • who we are,
      • where we are, and
      • what the tasks are
    • that face us.

Question - I wonder what evolutionary advantage dreaming would bestow to the first dreaming organisms? - why would a brain evolve to have a default behaviour with no outside connection? - Survival is dependent on processing outside information. There seems to be a contradiction here - I wonder what opinion Michael Levin would have on this theory?

for - dream research

Summary - This presents a new theory of dreams that challenge Freud and Jung's interpretation of dreams. - It is intriguing, as it posits that the dream state is the default state of the brain. - it makes more sense to me.

source - google search - does dreaming allow cognitive during waking state to be possible?

• https://dreams.ucsc.edu/Library/domhoff_2010a.html

for - validation - alternative to Freud's explanation of dreams - dream cognition - dream research

Validation - I've never subscribed to the Freudian interpretation of dreams and this seems to make more sense

• Four very different types of unexpected research findings from inside and outside the sleep laboratory since the 1950s
• make it possible to suggest a new cognitive approach to
  • dreaming and
  • dream content,
• an approach that has the potential to be extended into a neurocognitive theory as well.
• These findings, which are discussed throughout this article,
• cast doubt on the
  • Freudian,
  • Jungian, and
  • activation-synthesis theories
• that dominated thinking about dreams in the twentieth century.
• Those three theories all began with the idea that
• there were major differences between
  • waking cognition and
  • dreaming,
• but the findings presented in this article suggest that
• there are far more parallels between
  • dreaming and
  • waking thought
• than they realized (Domhoff, 2003b).

Some of King's note cards later figured in his speeches including his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Lanier is saying that the intelligence from the collective is harmful but I feel like throughout my life I have been taught to use other people's knowledge to help me and that teamwork is very important. This made me think of the saying my elementary and middle school teachers have taught me all my life.

Vladimir Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams on 118 index cards beginning on October 14, 1964 as an experiment. He was following the instructions of John Dunne, a British philosopher, in An Experiment with Time. The results were published by Princeton University Press in Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov which was edited by Gennady Barabtarlo.

https://www.arno-schmidt-stiftung.de/Archiv/Zettelarchiv.html

The »notes of the day« shown so far from Arno Schmidt's note box for »Zettel's Traum« can be downloaded here:

reply to https://www.reddit.com/r/Arno_Schmidt/comments/1267heb/arno_schmidt_compulsively_wrote_and_hoarded/

Schmidt's zettelkasten (the direct English translation would be slip box thought card index is more appropriate) (or most likely only portions of it) was featured in the 2013 "Zettelkästen. Maschinen der Phantasie" exhibition in Marbach: https://www.dla-marbach.de/presse/presse-details/news/pm-11-2013/. For the interested, the exhibition did publish a book which will likely have more details, but when I looked about a year ago, it was only available in German.

There is a lot of research on zettelkasten methods, which are most often variations of the commonplace book method transferred into the index card or slip form rather than books/notebooks. I've not looked intensively at Schmidt's practice (yet), but it was likely similar to that of Victor Margolin outlined here, though in Margolin's case it was non-fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxyy0THLfuI. Vladimir Nabokov and Michael Ende are other writers who used similar methods.

There's some more examples/detail about the idea of zettelkasten (aka card indexes) in general on Wikipedia.

Berryman used the caesura, extra space that can serve to represent a pause or an interruption. In this case, the caesura creates a pause to ponder, however briefly, whether Henry is hiding himself, or something else. Or both. Other punctuation can be used to show the caesura, such as a dash, ellipsis, comma, a literal line break, etc. Note that just a few lines later Berryman employs another technique to a similar end, the ",—" combination.

Another caesura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines

Tagging dream journals with "my" tags

eg. my childhood, my schooling my collegemates, my pallipattu, my wife, etc

Do we actually need social mobility?

Social mobility and the goods it can purchase can be a useful social motivation.

However, social mobility for the poorest amoungst us would be good, but how much additional marginal good does society derive from continued social mobility of the middle and upper classes continuing to gain wealth and moving up?

Perhaps there's a myth of social mobility confounding the issue with the myth of meritocracy as well.

Certainly the idea of raw capitalism without caps is at play as well. Could providing better governmental oversight of this be a helpful factor for society? (At least American society at the moment? As international competition may drive other broader problems vis-a-vis other pieces of global domination...)

What other common pieces make up the American dream? This is surely one of the deepest roots which allows others like "buying and owning one's own home".

Freedom certainly makes a play, but there are certainly freedoms we give up and others that are impinged upon to actually live and exist here with respect to the rest of society.

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Changing Our Dreams—Scientific American. (n.d.). Retrieved September 29, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-changing-our-dreams/

Some profound ideas here about the "American Dream" and the dark underbelly of what it may take to achieve not only for individuals, but to do so at scale.

Two of Shakespeare's more fanciful plays, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream explore the limits of the human form through its characters: the grotesque monster-human hybrid Caliban in The Tempest and the comical Bottom from Midsummer, a human with the head of an ass.

Shelley is conscious of Frankenstein's play with generic convention, and the role genre has in its agreement with representation of reality. In his review of the first edition in 1818 for Edinburgh Magaizine, Sir Walter Scott seems cognizant of the shift in consciousness. He notes: "The real events of the world have, in our day, too, been of so wondrous and gigantic a kind--the shiftings of the scenes in our stupendous drama have been so rapid and various, that Shakespeare himself, in his wildest flights, has been completely distanced by the eccentricities of actual existence."

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London Grammar: London Grammar [ooo]

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The dream of being incorporated into the whole of American society was not yet achieved in Hughes time, and has gotten worse in the last 4 decades.

Tying this in with the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, what would the novel be classified as? Clearly, it is a science-fiction genre piece, identifying it as more of a readerly work. On the flip side, it can be classified as more of a writerly work, since it is clear after reading it that you have to think about its context. So is the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep a piece of pulp fiction or literary fiction, and does that make it a readerly or writerly piece?