In which we discuss: Roger's substack on the dogma around the virus ossifying; professionalising of campaigning for the opposition; dogmas in all media; pressures external and internal; Ian McGilchrist's new book, right brain versus left brain; pressure and creation; control groups; el gato's meme about the ladder and succession of messaging; fabrication and trustworthiness of information; architecting society; the complicated landscape; backlogue of conveyancing in Devon ; relocation of the people out of cities and the pressures involved; hugs, kisses and more hugs again; the happiness of people; culture; theatre; what is smuggled into entertainment and the infantilisation of the people. We did not stick on much for too long.

Quick note: the quote about wisdom that I did not remember quite correctly and thus cannot find with my lazy internet searches can be found, I am pretty sure, in Modern Wisdom's 400th episode. It is also a good listen.

I swear this time is trying to turn us all into paranoics on all sides. Does anyone; mainstream, not mainstream, right, left, centre at this time seem sane from your perspective? Even the otherwise trustworthy people sound mad if one considers the main narrative to be the most cogent and un-mad.

Is it possible we cannot maintain what is normal because that was always an illusion. Normal was just a set of ideas that people seemed to cohere around and that is what is breaking apart.

Or it is all just the internet manifesting so much disinformation that actual reality is perfectly sensible but we are all just being dragged into the psychosis of bots and binary. Either way, this all sounds sensible to one person and mad to another. We have all become the friend we used to worry about.

One last thing, if anyone has an objection to my idea of purging the archive as we go then please let me know on dozeyrepose@protonmail.com as I really like the idea. I should have made a further point in the introduction that I rather like the ephemerality of it all; it is more like a radio show where that once spoken and broadcast is gone in time. All these opinions will shift and move with time so why sweat keeping the conversation that is the refinement of the idea. We will most assuredly keep the interview with Greg though, along with any other content worth the retention.

I will, however, be inscribing, "people love to consume vignettes of misery" on to vellum.