Camouflage (sex and trust) - a podcast by Ryder Richards

0:01 Why camouflage is like a rhizome.

• The complexity of camouflage and abstraction.
• Why camouflage is a better survival strategy.

2:44 The servant as master.

• How to become low like water and remain powerful.
• Master as servant - martyr. 

5:16 The boss who tries to also be your best friend.

• The parent who guilts you. 
• Undermined core self: camouflage needed for shame concealment. 

6:56 The ubiquity of repetition and mass media.

• The ubiquity of marilyn monroe as a sex symbol. (Andy Warhol)
• Society normalization disperses desire: at once object and landscape. 

9:18 Desire has become decentralized and dispersed

• Mimetic desire has become decentralized and mimetically dispersed. 
• The role of libido in camouflaging.

12:13 The decentralization of the self.

• Camouflage through subject, context, confusion or dispersal at scale.
• Decentralization of self: the self or desire as a rhizome.

14:45 Disguise is the facade that shelters the self, but also enables psychopathic killers. 

• The digital world lacks trust, artificial intelligence, and the travails of insecurity.
• Crowdsourcing wikipedia is a battleground.

16:57 We no longer trust the image.

• The attention economy and the loss of trust.
• The destabilization of America, 

19:28 Do you still have the power to focus or just act?

• Focus is the only thing that can determine who we are.
• Hunker down and live dangerously. 

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