REALLY THAT
There's a Whole Fucking Art Gallery Out Here
An argument against moral policing, compulsory political identity, and surrendering your attention to somebody else's frame. By John Brajer.
Author
John Brajer
SYSTEMS
Causal Reactivation: When Changed Conditions Wake Old Possibilities
An explainer of John Brajer’s Causal Reactivation mechanism: dormant possibilities should return to attention when the conditions that suppressed them materially change.
SYSTEMS
Graded Dormancy: Dormant Does Not Mean Dead
An explainer of John Brajer’s Graded Dormancy mechanism: preserve temporarily uncompetitive possibilities at different levels of inactivity so changed conditions can make them relevant again.
SYSTEMS
Conditional Failure Memory: Failure Belongs to Conditions, Not Possibilities
An explainer of John Brajer’s Conditional Failure Memory: record why a possibility failed under a particular state, preserve it through graded dormancy, and reconsider it when relevant conditions change.
IDEAS
CWI: The Moves You Don’t Let Yourself See
John Brajer’s CWI framework models the gap between what a person can do, what they can imagine, and what they psychologically permit themselves to choose—then uses PRS to track how crowds move the frontier.