Further spiraling down the rabbit hole into uselessness (following their recent FUBARs in changes to donation levels and generally crappy customer service), Humble Bundle offered up this gem:
Humble Book Bundle: Bikes by Microcosm
Now, if one were to judge a bundle by its title, one might assume that this is a batch of small-press books on bicycles and the cycling lifestyle.
Not a chance in hell. It features such wonderful titles as:
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Bikes in Space: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction
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Taking The Lane - a series of Feminist and Trans 'zines about dealing with misogyny and the like in bicycling culture in Portland
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Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories
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Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers
I couldn't make these up if I tried. Out of the whole bundle it looks like there are maybe three or four books that might have something real to read about cycling culture. The rest are in the same vein as the above-listed feminist and trans rhetoric.
I have but one thing to say: We needed this bundle like a fish needs a bicycle.
This person's comments always make me feel a mix of confusion and frustration.
I feel like they deliberately put their point across in the most convoluted and overly academic manner possible.
I can enjoy some esoteric rhetoric, but it's over the edge for what I can handle. Having unique local posters is neat, but this style is overboard in autism.
My best good faith interpretation is that the intention is to encourage careful analysis of word choice and the search for meaning where most wouldn't bother. I'd ask them directly, but then I'd be responsible for reading their reply and trying to make sense of it.
Does academia challenge one to think for self or to act in the name of what they want one to believe in? Could then the latter cause one to lack comprehension of what all perceived means; as in being "confused and frustrated" when not being told what to believe?
What if it isn't about information utilized to get a point across (truth/false); but about adaptation to inspiration in adherence to natural law (if/then)?
Instead of evaluating what is written by means of reason (truth versus false); how about using implication (if/then) on it to see if it would help building ones own comprehension?
What if you represent ONE potential within ALL potentiality offered; but are tricked to ignore it by believing others?
Indeed. ONE within ALL emitting ALL outwards to each other ONE. A singular within the plural. Then again...how could the belief in individual ownership not contradict collective coexistence?
What if reality (motion) rewards effort; while using frustration aka the consequences of ones attempts at struggling to sustain ONEself within ALL; represent both inspiration for self sustenance and temptation to ignore it?
What could I write to make another ONE not choose by free will of choice to ignore self sustenance within ALL; when simply reading text makes him confused and frustrated?
Need over want; inspiration over information; and implication over reason...you have the choice; I already act upon it in adherence to self sustenance.