Concept
decay
3 writings
- gravity outlasts trickster Ethics occupies the trickster's ecological niche after disruption ends, functioning not as a constraint but as a slower destabilizing force that decides what passes between conversation and the records it generates.
- intimacy is the pratfall of desire Desire is a predictive model aimed at another person; intimacy is the pratfall that occurs when that model fails against the actual person, producing a mutual lesion that reveals what each boundary was protecting — a contact achievable only through sincerity.
- decay without constraint is heat Unconstrained decay is entropy; constrained decay under feedback generates cumulative complexity — rivers carve canyons, diffusion does not. Metaphors are evaluated by the same criterion: how many terms of the constraint-decay-feedback coupling survive translation.