September 22nd, 2025
- my threads on twitter - cancer as a kind of trauma response that causes the cell to perceive "I'm alone in a hostile environment" rather than "I'm part of something larger that cares for me" — relates to ego boundary, parable of the canoe sandwich
- anthropology parenting book - lancey - the anthropology of childhood
- (mentioned by a friend)
- 3 clusters of cultures re childhood
- chattel - little slaves, annoying til they can work for you
- cherubs - little angels
- changelings - strange & bad
- correlates with # of children (cherubs is fewer - bushmen also this)
- dev psych thesis is very contingent on cherub culture
- people writing about NNTD Tasshin Fogleman - "i don't need to adopt other people's models of me wholesale, those are for them, my model of me is for me"
- missing care attractors
- co-criticality - criticality may be better described in terms of the "edge of chaos" since that's a more intuitive name